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Israel W. Charny
"What would you do to advance the cause of peace in this mad world?" An outstanding group of professionals in psychology, psychiatry, sociology, political science, law, education, journalism, philosophy, and…
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Israel W Charny
This book brings together transcripts of the round table discussions from the historic International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide and emphasizes proposals for the prevention of future acts of…
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How does one effectively fight suicide bombers? What threat do they hold for Western society? How do people who love peace reconcile the need for war? Written by a noted…
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What would you do to advance the cause of peace in this mad world? An outstanding group of professionals in psychology, psychiatry, sociology, political science, law, education, journalism, philosophy, and…
A study of the nature of violent behaviour tracing its psychological origins on an individual and social level.
Defines two paradigms of mental organization, the democratic and the fascist, and shows how these systems can determine behavior in intimate relationships, social situations, and events of global significance. This…
How can one experience the trauma of the concentration camps - being reduced to a helpless witness of the brutality of torture, medical experiments, and execution of those around you…
When the Turks demanded the cancellation of all lectures on the Armenian Genocide and the non-participation of Armenian lecturers, the Israeli government demanded the same of the First International Conference…
The Widening Circle of Genocide, the third volume of an award-winning series, combines an encyclopedic summary of knowledge of the subject with annotated citations of literature in each field of…
Attempts to explain the many perplexing phenomena of marriages and marital therapy. Shaped by the philosophical conceptions of the inevitable existential limitations of all people, this text describes how each…
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
In The Genocide Contagion, esteemed scholar of genocide Israel W. Charny asks uncomfortable questions about what allows people to participate in genocide-either directly or indirectly. Charny draws on both historical…
Rather than pursuing DSM symptom conditions, this book looks at psychiatric disorders through a lens of whether one is doing harm to oneself or others. It then grapples with critical…
Israel W. Charny,Irving Louis Horowitz
Israel W. Charny,Chanan Rapaport,Elie Wiesel
How Can We Commit the Unthinkable? Genocide: The Human Cancer was commissioned by the Institute for World Order in New York and supported by a grant from the Szold National…
This book provides discussion on the normality of man’s availability to genocide. It proposes a frame of reference for attempts to understand human mad violence alongside the genius of human…
Richard G. Hovannisian,Terrence Des Pres,Israel W. Charny
Seven decades after the destruction of the Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire, the Armenian genocide remains largely ignored by governments and forgotten by the world public, even though the…
A Democratic Mind: Psychology and Psychiatry with Fewer Meds and More Soul focuses on how an individual lives her life, and on the extent of harm that an individual can…