Political paranoia
the psychopolitics of hatred
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Author
Contributions
- Post, Jerrold M. - Contributor
Publication
1997 - Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut
Language
English
Word Count
91,500 words, Guess
Page Count
366 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1001368M
- ISBN-100300070276
- OCLC Control Number36135788
- OCLC Control Numberpoliticalparanoi00robi
- Library of Congress Control Number96040336
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- Goodreads523384
- LibraryThing103559
Classifications
- DDC302/.17
- LCCJA74.5 .R55 1997
Description
Robert S. Robins and Jerrold M. Post, M.D., experts in political psychology, document and interpret the malign power of paranoia in a variety of contexts - in political movements like McCarthyism; in organizations like the John Birch Society; in leaders like Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Jim Jones, and David Koresh; and among extreme groups that commit violence in the name of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Indeed, Robins and Post show that the paranoid dynamic has been aggressively present in every social disaster of this century. Robins and Post describe the paranoid personality, explain why paranoia is part of human evolutionary history, and examine the conditions that must exist before the message of the paranoid takes root in a vulnerable population, leading to mass movements and genocidal violence.
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