Manufacturing social distress
psychopathy in everyday life
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Word Count
55,250 words, Guess
Page Count
221 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1012239M
- ISBN-100306453460
- OCLC Control Number36165123
- OCLC Control Numbermanufacturingsoc00rieb
- Library of Congress Control Number96052872
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- Goodreads862348
Classifications
- DDC302
- LCCHM251 .R499 1997
Description
This bold new book proposes a completely new discipline - "the psychology of malefaction," a frank study of the role of evil in human hehavior that does not explain an act of murder, for example, as simply a symptom of the murderer's psychosis. Having been long successful in explaining psychopathic behavior, the author maintains, psychology has in a sense tended to excuse the destructive acts of the psychopath, or at least has appeared to do so. Rieber reexamines the various phenomena of family violence, violence in films and television, modern war, and serial killers regarding them as wicked, not merely insane. This provocative book rethinks the nagging problem of evil as it manifests itself in our society, rigorously questioning to what degree persons must be responsible for - and held accountable for - their actions.
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Series Statement
- PATH in psychology
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