| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxvi, 367 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [348]-352) and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Introduction to the paperback edition -- Introduction -- Sec. 1. Killing and the existence of resistance : a world of virgins studying sex. Chap. 1. Fight or flights, posture or submit -- Chap. 2. Nonfirers throughout history -- Chap. 3. Why can't Johnny kill? -- Chap. 4. The nature and source of resistance -- Sec. 2. Killing and combat trauma : the role of killing in psychiatric casualties -- Chap. 1. The nature of psychiatric casualties : the psychological price of war -- Chap. 2. The reign of fear -- Chap. 3. the weight of exhaustion -- Chap. 4. The mud of guilt and horror -- Chap. 5. The wind of hate -- Chap. 6. The well of fortitude -- Chap. 7. The burden of killing -- Chap. 8. The blind men and the elephant -- Sec. 3. Killing and physical distance : fro a distance, you don't look anything like a friend. Chap. 1. Distance : a qualitative distinction in death -- Chap. 2. Killing at maximum and long range : never a need for repentance or regret -- Chap. 3. Killing at mid- and hand-grenade range : "you can never be sure it was you" -- Chap. 4. Killing at close range : "I knew that it was up to me, personally, to kill him" -- Chap. 5. Killing at edged-weapons range : an "intimate brutality" -- Chap. 6. Killing at hand-to-hand combat range -- Chap. 7. Killing at sexual range : "the primal aggression, the release, and orgasmic discharge" -- Sec. 4. An anatomy of killing : all factors considered. Chap. 1. The demands of authority : Milgram and the military -- Chap. 2. Group absolution : "the individual is not a killer, but the group is" -- Chap. 3. Emotional distance : "to me they were less than animals" -- Chap. 4. The nature of the victim : relevance and payoff -- Chap. 5. Aggressive predisposition of the killer : avengers, conditioning, and the 2 percent who like it -- Chap. 6. All factors considered : the mathematics of death -- Sec. 5. Killing and atrocities : "no honor here, no virtue." Chap. 1. The full spectrum of atrocity -- Chap. 2. The dark power of atrocity -- Chap. 3. The entrapment of atrocity -- Chap. 4. A case study in atrocity -- Chap. 5. The greatest trap of all : to live with that which thou hath wrought -- Sec. 6. Chap. 1. The killing response stages -- Chap. 2. Applications of the model : murder-suicides, lost elections, and thoughts of insanity -- Sec. 7. Chap. 1. Desensitization and conditioning in Vietnam : overcoming the resistance to killing -- Chap. 2. What have we done to our soldiers? : the rationalization of killing and how it failed in Vietnam -- Chap. 3. Post-traumatic stress disorder and the cost of killing in Vietnam -- Chap. 4. The limits of human endurance and the lessons of Vietnam -- Sec. 8. Killing in America : what are we doing to our children? Chap. 1. A virus of violence -- Chap. 2. Desensitization and Pavlov's dog at the movies -- Chap. 3. B.F. Skinner's rats and operant conditioning at the video arcade -- Chap. 4. Social learning and role models in the media -- Chap. 5. The resensitization of America -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Subject |
Combat -- Psychological aspects.
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Psychology, Military.
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Homicide -- Psychological aspects.
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Violence -- Social aspects.
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Violence -- Psychological aspects.
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Psychology, Military.
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Homicide -- psychology.
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Warfare.
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Violence -- psychology.
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| ISBN |
0316330000: $24.95 ($33.95 in Canada) |
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