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Hatred - The Psychological Descent Into Violence
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 152.4
EAN: 9781586482602
ISBN: 1586482602
Label: PublicAffairs
Manufacturer: PublicAffairs
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: September 07, 2004
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date: September 07, 2004
Sales Rank: 831722
Studio: PublicAffairs
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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.
Gaylin dissects the mechanisms by which cynical political and religious leaders manipulate frustrated and deprived people, leading to the acts of mass terror that threaten us all. Step-by-step, he leads us into an understanding of the psychological pathway to acts of terrorism—an understanding that is an essential to survival in a world of hatred.
Hatred is a masterwork in Willard Gaylin's life-long study of human emotions. Writing for the educated lay audience in the eloquent, accessible language of his bestsellers Feelings and Rediscovering Love, he takes us to the very roots of hatred.
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The author covered sustancial material from anger, rage, pejudice, bigotry and processes that reach patological hatred. He stated "We can guard against a sense of impotence by reflecting the anger from the self of others, concentrating on who crated the problem rather than who cannot resolve it." It's mean us. "Rage is the public face of fear in most men and many women. The two can be considered as opposite sides of the same coin, the same emergency response. Therefore, to determine what enrages ... Read More
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I read 100 pages of this book while in pure agony and despair, and yet maintained the smallest of hopes that maybe, just maybe, on the next page Gaylin would actually get into something tangible that could be taken WITHOUT a grain of salt, but it never came. Instead there was only endless kitsch-poetic blatherings about the differences between palestinian terrorists and americans with road rage. Terrorists this, blah blah, terrorists that blah blah... It just goes on and on. You'd think from the ... Read More
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I would ask that Willard Gaylin burn his mail-order psychiatric degree and take classes at a real university. How anyone can claim that he is a "leading" theoretician, educator, or anything else in the field, for that matter, astounds this reviewer beyond belief. Such praise should be considered insulting to the rest of psychiatry as a whole.
This book is not "groundbreaking." It presents no new or previously unheard-of information. All that this book accomplishes is the terrible feat of ... Read More
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Gaylin's text is eminently readable and coherent. He describes in great detail the processes leading up from prejudice to hatred, which serves to give a richer understand of what hatred actually is. Additionally, Gaylin makes a very worthwhile distinction between the "clinical phenomena" of hatred and the idea of hatred that has become so infused in folk psychology that the two are used interchangably in the popular nomenclature. However it is my opinion that some of the text contained social commentary ... Read More
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Gaylin's simplicity and concrete thinking makes this book invaluable for those of us who would like a better understanding of this violent and scary world in which we live.
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