A Group Analytic Approach to Understanding Mass Violence: The Holocaust, Group Hallucinosis and False Beliefs Contributor(s): Roth, Bennett (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138625280 ISBN-13: 9781138625280 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Psychology | Psychotherapy - Group - Social Science | Violence In Society |
Dewey: 303.6 |
LCCN: 2018028637 |
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.91 lbs) 166 pages |
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Publisher Description: A Group Analytic Approach to Understanding Mass Violence makes an analytic examination of the enactment of genocide by Nazi Germany during World War II to explore how mass and state-sponsored violence can arise within societies and how the false beliefs that are used to justify such actions are propagated within society. Bennett Roth makes use of Bion's concept of 'Hallucinosis' to describe the formation of false group beliefs that lead to murderous violence. Drawing on both group analysis and psychoanalysis, Roth explores in relation to genocide:
A Group Analytic Approach to Understanding Mass Violence will be of great interest to all psychoanalysts and group analysts seeking to understand the role of false beliefs in their patients and society more generally. It will also be of interest to students and scholars of Holocaust studies programs or anyone seeking to understand the perpetration of genocide in the past and present. |