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100 1 $aGrossman, Dave.
245 10 $aOn killing :$bthe psychological cost of learning to kill in war and society /$cDave Grossman.
250 $aRev. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bLittle, Brown and Co.,$c2009.
300 $axxxvi, 377 p. :$bill ;$c21 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [353]-358) and index.
505 0 $aAcknowledgments -- Introduction to the revised edition -- Introduction -- section I. Killing and the existence of resistance : a world of virgins studying sex -- 1. Fight or flight, posture or submit -- 2. Nonfirers throughout history -- 3. Why can't Johnny kill? -- 4. The nature and source of the resistance -- section II. Killing and combat trauma : the role of killing in psychiatric casualties -- 1. The nature of psychiatric causalities : the psychological price of war -- 2. The reign of fear -- 3. The weight of exhaustion -- 4. The mud of guilt and horror -- 5. The wind of hate -- 6. The well of fortitude -- 7. The burden of killing -- 8. The blind men and the elephant -- section III. Killing and physical distance : from a distance, you don't look anything like a friend -- 1. Distance : a qualitative distinction in death -- 2. Killing at maximum and long range : never a need for repentance or regret -- 3. Killing at mid- and hand-grenade range : "you can never be sure it was you" -- 4. Killing at close range : "I knew that it was up to me, personally, to kill him" -- 5. Killing at edged-weapons range : an "intimate brutality" -- 6. Killing at hand-to-hand-combat range -- 7. Killing at sexual range : "the primal aggression, the release, and orgasmic discharge" -- section IV. An anatomy of killing : all factors considered -- 1. The demands of authority : Milgram and the military -- 2. Group absolution : "the individual is not a killer, but the group is" -- 3. Emotional distance : "to me they were less than animals" -- 4. The nature of the victim : relevance and payoff -- 5. Aggressive predisposition of the killer : avengers, conditioning, and the 2 percent who like it -- 6. All factors considered : the mathematics of death -- section V. Killing and atrocities : "no honor here, no virtue" -- 1. The full spectrum of atrocity -- 2. The dark power of atrocity -- 3. The entrapment of atrocity -- 4. A case study in atrocity -- 5. The greatest trap of all : to live with that which thou hath wrought -- section VI. The killing response stages -- 1. What does it feel like to kill? -- 2. Applications of the model : murder-suicides, lost elections, and thoughts of insanity -- section VII. Killing in Vietnam : what have we done to our soldiers? -- 1. Desensitization and conditioning in Vietnam : overcoming the resistance to killing -- 2. What have we done to our soldiers? The rationalization of killing and how it failed in Vietnam -- 3. Post-traumatic stress disorder and the cost of killing in Vietnam -- 4. The limits of human endurance and the lessons of Vietnam -- section VIII. Killing in America : what are we doing to our children? -- 1. A virus of violence -- 2. Desensitization and Pavlov's dog t the movies -- 3. B.F. Skinner's rats and operant conditioning at the video arcade -- 4. Social learning and role models in the media -- 5. The resensitization of America -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
650 0 $aCombat$xPsychological aspects.
650 0 $aPsychology, Military.
650 0 $aHomicide$xPsychological aspects.
650 0 $aViolence$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aViolence$xPsychological aspects.
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