The Pathology of Man: A Study of Human Evil, Steven James Bartlett (Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas, 2005), xv + 361 pp., cloth 73.95, pbk. 53.95
Steven J. Bartlett ambitiously presents what he describes as the first “comprehensive analysis of the psychology of human evil,” which will enable us to “understand what it is about the average person's patterns of thinking and the specific contents of the individual's mental life that sup...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 326-329 |
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| Summary: | Steven J. Bartlett ambitiously presents what he describes as the first “comprehensive analysis of the psychology of human evil,” which will enable us to “understand what it is about the average person's patterns of thinking and the specific contents of the individual's mental life that support and encourage human evil” (p. 5). Trained in medical pathology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy, Bartlett views all human evil—whether individual or collective—as caused by the fatally flawed emotional and cognitive constitution of individual humans. Moreover, from a medical and psychiatric perspective, this flawed constitution is properly evaluated as “pathological,” because humans are destructive to each other and to the species as a whole. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcm032 |