Mass Insanity

by Theo Alistair

Overview

Mass Insanity explores the subjects of insane communities, the clash of identities, and how societies indoctrinate their members and shape their way of thinking. Why do millions of supposedly sane people endorse insane ideas such as the assassination of writers, cartoonist, and journalists, the suppression of women, the killing of children, the destruction of art, culture and heritage? Can a society that includes millions of people lose its mind and how? Why would a community lose the will to defend itself against an enemy seeking its demise?
It uses theories of social, clinical and forensic psychology to analyze totalitarian psyche. It also discusses the decay of Western civilization and the arising psychological difficulties.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186758914
Publisher:	Libert In Print
Publication date:	03/13/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Theo Alistair is a professor of psychology who worked in various universities the U.S, U.K, the Middle East. Before taking up research for this book, he had spent years studying how radical organizations and authoritarian socities indoctrinate their members. He conducted many studies that aimed to understand the motive and rationale of fanaticism. He interviewed thousands of subjects to examine the psychological aspects related to the religious violence and genocidal ideas. He applied several psychological scales. The results of these studies kept directing him to the underlying religious ideas which were used by many individuals to distinguish right from wrong. In Mass Insanity Theo Alistair explores the subjects of insane communities, the current clash of identities in the West, and how closed societies indoctrinate their members and shape their way of thinking.