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Hatred: The Psychological Descent Into Violence

Hatred: The Psychological Descent Into Violence

Paperback

CognitionCriminologyGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 1586482602
ISBN13: 9781586482602
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: Sep 1 2004
Pages: 261
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.08 Depth: 7.92
Language: English

We all get angry at the built-in frustrations and humiliations of everyday life. But few of us ever experience the intense and perverse hatred that inspires acts of malignant violence such as suicide bombings or ethnic massacres.

In Hatred, Dr.Willard Gaylin, one of America's most respected psychiatrists, describes how raw personal passions are transformed into acts of violence and cultures of hatred. Such hatred goes beyond mere emotion. Hatred, Gaylin explains, is a psychological disorder--a form of quasi-delusional thinking. It requires forming a passionate attachment, an obsessive involvement with the scapegoat population. It is designed to allow the angry and frustrated individual to disavow responsibility for his own failures and misery by directing it towards a convenient victim.

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