Blind Trust: Large Groups and Their Leaders in Times of Crisis and TerrorPitchstone Pub., 2004 - 367 من الصفحات Blind Trust is the culmination of more than three decades of profound immersion in the most pressing sociopolitical conflicts of our time, by the psychoanalyst with probably the most direct experience with such issues of any in the world. Author Vamik Volkan applies his knowledge of depth psychology to the turbulent and destructive human experiences in the current cauldrons of the greatest unrest and disaster throughout Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Illuminating the etiologic bases of war, revolution, massacres, and terror, as these have disturbed the world from ancient times to modern civilization, his voice speaks for the imperative of reason and the application of modern analytic knowledge for conflict resolution at the highest levels. The subjects are large groups and their leaders: windows into the lives of the Prophet Muhammad, Stalin, Milosevic, Osama Bin Laden, and David Koresh are interspersed with examinations of religion and fundamentalism and a sober study of suicide attackers. Volkan's detailed and scholarly description of regressive movements in large-group identities, complemented by an equal attention to progressive and creative reparative forces, represents a significant expansion of our understanding of group psychology. |
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From the Couch to the Negotiating Table | 11 |
The Seven Threads of LargeGroup Identity 23 3588 | 23 |
Plunging Back Into a World of Fear and Desire | 56 |
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Adolf Hitler adult Afghanistan aggressive Albanians American anxiety Arab Ataturk attack became become behavior believe Branch Davidians CALIFORNIA/SANTA CRUZ child childhood chosen trauma conflict create CRUZ The University cultural Davidians decision-making emotional enemy Enver Hoxha ethnic example experience external fantasy father Fazile Fazile's feelings followers fundamentalist German group identity Hitler human humiliation ibid identify ideology individual Islamic Israel Israeli killed Koresh Kosovo Laden large-group identity large-group regression living malignant mental mother mourning Muhammad Mullah Omar Muslim narcissistic personality Nazi Nixon Norman Itzkowitz observed Old Believers Osama Osama bin Laden Ottoman Empire Palestinian paranoid parents perceived political leader propaganda psychoanalyst psychological religion religious rituals role Salman Akhtar sense September 11 Serbian Serbs shared Sigmund Freud society Soviet suicide symbol Taliban teacher threat tion Tirana Turkish unconscious University Library UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA Vamık Volkan Yitzhak Rabin