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Manufacturing social distress : psychopathy in everyday life /

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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 explainin...

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Main Author: Rieber, R. W. (Robert W.)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Plenum, [1997]
Series:PATH in psychology.
Subjects:
Social psychology.
Social change > Psychological aspects.
Social values.
Distress (Psychology)
Deviant behavior.
Psychopaths.
Anomy.
Afwijkend gedrag.
Antisociale persoonlijkheid.
Sociale crises.
Het Kwaad.
Abweichendes Verhalten.
Sozialpsychologie.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • The lay of the land and the currents of the river
  • Social breakdown and the social distress syndrome
  • The Prince of Darkness and the heart of darkness
  • War and social distress : images of the enemy
  • The banks, media, and social distress
  • Dreams money can buy
  • Terrorism, organized crime, and social distress
  • Being "good" in "bad" places: toward a principled American lifestyle.