Blind Trust Large Groups and Their Leaders in Times of Crisis and Terror

by Volkan, Vamik

• ISBN13: 9780972887526
• ISBN10: 0972887520
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Pitchstone Publishing

Summary

Vamik D Volkan, MD, (Charlottesville, Virginia) is emeritus professor of psychiatry and founder of the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He is the author of thirty books which have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Author Biography

Vamik Volkan, an emeritus professor of psychiatry and founder of the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction at the University of Virginia, has been a member of the Carter Center’s International Negotiation Network and an Inaugural Rabin Fellow at the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies in Tel Aviv. He is the author of numerous books, including Blood Lines and The Need to Have Enemies and Allies. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Introduction: From the Couch to the Negotiating Table	11	(12)
part one: large-group psychology
1. The Seven Threads of Large-Group Identity	23	(33)
2. Regression: Plunging Back Into a World of Fear and Desire	56	(32)
3. Rituals That Bind People Together	88	(25)
part two: psychology of religious fundamentalism
4. From Waco to the Bamian Valley	113	(26)
5. From the Bamian Valley to Iraq	139	(32)
part three: leadership and personality
6. "A Decisive Trifle"	171	(18)
7. Force of Narcissism	189	(26)
8. Leaders as Teachers	215	(18)
part four: a case study
9. Albania: From Regression to Progression	233	(27)
Coda	260	(3)
Acknowledgments	263	(2)
Notes	265	(66)
Bibliography	331	(20)
Index	351