Recalling a past trauma often means reliving the actual experience to many people. It conjures images, sounds, smells, and feelings that can have long-lasting negative effects. It can also interfere with the way one sees the world and the way one relates to other people.
Fortunately, Mark Dworkin offers groundbreaking work and explores the subtle nuances of the therapeutic relationship and the vital role it plays in using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) with traumatized clients. He provides tools for mental health professionals to effectively apply, treat, and form stronger and healthier relationships with their clients.
Along with a forward written by the originator and developer of EMDR, Francine Shapiro, this text offers detailed cases and transcripts that lead clinicians through complete treatment approaches. It reveals practical applications of relational psychology and the creative uses for EMDR. In addition, material in this book reviews EMDR within an eight-phase approach and shows how relational issues play a key role in each phase of EMDR treatment.
Topic listed in EMDR and the Relational Imperative include:
• how to develop an atmosphere of trust
• ways to improve body awareness and reduce tension
• how to use EMDR with more than one member of the family
• the pitfalls and best practices of procedural steps for EMDR
• ways of working with transferential and countertransferential issues
The section on the three-pronged EMDR approach discusses the overall treatment of a client. It includes the client’s past experiences that set the groundwork for the pathology, the present situations or triggers that currently stimulate the disturbance, and the templates necessary for future action.
This text touches on the importance of clinician self-centering and self-awareness. It also offers appendixes with self-care exercises and a clinician awareness questionnaire.
Intended as a standard reference for all practitioners working to heal the wounds of trauma, this book is an essential resource for the effective application of EMDR.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Understand and Treat the Emotional and Behavioral Ddisorders of a Child and an Adolescent
Planning the best treatment to support a child’s emotional issues can be in part helped through understanding the basic foundation of the family. This month’s Dual Main Selection contains essential strategies for understanding and treating emotional and behavioral disorders, addressing the child and his or her family.
Treatment of Childhood Disorders, 3/e
Presented in a revised and updated third edition, this professional reference offers an authoritative review of evidence-based treatments for the most prevalent child and adolescent problems.
Written by top experts in the field, chapters address the treatment of childhood disorders from a cognitive-behavioral systems perspective and take into account many important and ongoing developments in research.
Treatment of Childhood Disorders, 3/e depicts a decision-making approach to treatment and prevention and focuses on established research, relevant to both typical and atypical child and family functioning. It lists evidence-based treatment procedures and operational rules that conform to the realities and changing demands of clinical practice.
State-of-the-art applications go over anxiety disorders, autistic spectrum disorders, the effects of maltreatment, and substance use. The complex treatment of children and teens with ADHD discusses how it is viewed now as a chronic disorder for most children.
Treatment of Childhood Disorders, 3/e incorporates important, ongoing developments in research and treatment design. In particular, increased attention is given to combined treatments and how they translate into real-world clinical settings, as well as how individual, developmental, and contextual factors may influence outcome.
This definitive resource provides a comprehensive review of current issues of childhood disorders and includes empirically supported presentations. Chapters contain valuable information that cover developmental, emotional and behavioral disorders.
Psychotherapy with Adolescents and Their Families
Providing a safe environment for a client and building a strong relationship between the individual, family, and the practitioner can reveal insight into the problems and possible causes of a disorder.
Designed to help therapists develop behavioral treatment plans for adolescent clients and their families, several interventions are clearly outlined in this manual.
It includes full descriptions and symptom summaries of common adolescent disorders. Topics cover areas such as separation anxiety, sibling relational problems, impulse control disorders, and personality changes due to a general medical condition.
Psychotherapy with Adolescents and Their Families provides essential instructions for tracking patient sessions, as well as alerts to when outpatient reports are due.
This handbook offers step-by-step information on the authorization process and shows how to monitor payments and authorization dates. Psychotherapy with Adolescents and Their Families guides mental health professionals through the required reports and progress notes with separate treatment plans for adolescent, parents, and entire the family.
Treatment of Childhood Disorders, 3/e
Presented in a revised and updated third edition, this professional reference offers an authoritative review of evidence-based treatments for the most prevalent child and adolescent problems.
Written by top experts in the field, chapters address the treatment of childhood disorders from a cognitive-behavioral systems perspective and take into account many important and ongoing developments in research.
Treatment of Childhood Disorders, 3/e depicts a decision-making approach to treatment and prevention and focuses on established research, relevant to both typical and atypical child and family functioning. It lists evidence-based treatment procedures and operational rules that conform to the realities and changing demands of clinical practice.
State-of-the-art applications go over anxiety disorders, autistic spectrum disorders, the effects of maltreatment, and substance use. The complex treatment of children and teens with ADHD discusses how it is viewed now as a chronic disorder for most children.
Treatment of Childhood Disorders, 3/e incorporates important, ongoing developments in research and treatment design. In particular, increased attention is given to combined treatments and how they translate into real-world clinical settings, as well as how individual, developmental, and contextual factors may influence outcome.
This definitive resource provides a comprehensive review of current issues of childhood disorders and includes empirically supported presentations. Chapters contain valuable information that cover developmental, emotional and behavioral disorders.
Psychotherapy with Adolescents and Their Families
Providing a safe environment for a client and building a strong relationship between the individual, family, and the practitioner can reveal insight into the problems and possible causes of a disorder.
Designed to help therapists develop behavioral treatment plans for adolescent clients and their families, several interventions are clearly outlined in this manual.
It includes full descriptions and symptom summaries of common adolescent disorders. Topics cover areas such as separation anxiety, sibling relational problems, impulse control disorders, and personality changes due to a general medical condition.
Psychotherapy with Adolescents and Their Families provides essential instructions for tracking patient sessions, as well as alerts to when outpatient reports are due.
This handbook offers step-by-step information on the authorization process and shows how to monitor payments and authorization dates. Psychotherapy with Adolescents and Their Families guides mental health professionals through the required reports and progress notes with separate treatment plans for adolescent, parents, and entire the family.
The Latest Advances in Cognitive Behavior Therapy
The progress of a client during a therapy session is vital to recovery. However, it is just as important to prevent relapse while the individual is outside of the session. With this Dual Main Selection, mental health practitioners can contribute to an individual’s progress and prevent relapse.
Staying Well After Psychosis
Structured by wide-ranging theoretical and empirical evidence, this book provides new strategies for dealing with the problem of relapse in psychosis. It enables practitioners to design and implement a formulation-based approach to help clients diagnosed with schizophrenia and other related disorders.
Staying Well After Psychosis provides an overview of the structure style and organization of therapy. Specific cognitive and interpersonal strategies that the authors have found useful in their clinical and research experiences are detailed throughout.
The authors review how psychosis disrupts important developmental processes, and stalls or skews personal life trajectories. At the same time, psychosis appears to rise in a particular developmental context, suggesting that specific developmentally sensitive interventions need to integrate developmental tasks and transitions.
Staying Well After Psychosis focuses on all aspects of the therapeutic process of cognitive interpersonal therapy including:
• taking a developmental perspective on help seeking and affect regulation
• supporting self-reorganization and adaptation after acute psychosis
• understanding and treating traumatic reactions to psychosis
• working with humiliation, entrapment, loss and fear of recurrence appraisals during recovery
• working with cognitive interpersonal schemata
• developing coping skills in an interpersonal context
Provided within a framework for recovery and staying well that focuses on emotional and interpersonal adaptation to psychosis, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, and mental health professionals will find this easy-to-read manual a valuable resource in their work with adults and adolescents. Softcover. Published 2006. Wiley UK. 2bp.
Using Homework Assignments in Cognitive Behavior Therapy
In its first volume, this book provides the theoretical and empirical basis for the use of homework in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). It offers support for the use of homework, models for practice, and systems for evaluating client compliance and therapist competence in administering assignments.
Focusing on the role of homework in cognitive therapy, it demonstrates successful methods of integration and discusses solutions to common barriers. Rather than offering one-size-fits-all, pre-designed tasks, the application of a model includes a detailed case study and recommendations for adjusting administration methods for particular problems and specific client populations.
This new volume presents strategies, techniques, and sample assignments that are tailored to specific populations, including children, older adults, couples, and families who face problems such as: anxiety and depression, chronic pain, delusions and hallucinations and marital and sexual problems, among several others.
With a full range of knowledge to successfully incorporate individualized homework assignments, this book brings into practice the proven long-term benefits of CBT. Using Homework Assignments in Cognitive Behavior Therapy summarizes key points from theoretical and empirical foundations for homework as well as innovations for clinical practice.
It suggests a greater focus on therapeutic collaboration and basing homework administration on conceptualization. The ‘model of practice’ provides a list of therapist facilitative behaviors theorized to encourage homework completion.
From case examples and clinical strategies to assessment measures, sample homework assignments and practice models, this text provides the practitioner with all the tools needed to incorporate homework into therapy practice.
Staying Well After Psychosis
Structured by wide-ranging theoretical and empirical evidence, this book provides new strategies for dealing with the problem of relapse in psychosis. It enables practitioners to design and implement a formulation-based approach to help clients diagnosed with schizophrenia and other related disorders.
Staying Well After Psychosis provides an overview of the structure style and organization of therapy. Specific cognitive and interpersonal strategies that the authors have found useful in their clinical and research experiences are detailed throughout.
The authors review how psychosis disrupts important developmental processes, and stalls or skews personal life trajectories. At the same time, psychosis appears to rise in a particular developmental context, suggesting that specific developmentally sensitive interventions need to integrate developmental tasks and transitions.
Staying Well After Psychosis focuses on all aspects of the therapeutic process of cognitive interpersonal therapy including:
• taking a developmental perspective on help seeking and affect regulation
• supporting self-reorganization and adaptation after acute psychosis
• understanding and treating traumatic reactions to psychosis
• working with humiliation, entrapment, loss and fear of recurrence appraisals during recovery
• working with cognitive interpersonal schemata
• developing coping skills in an interpersonal context
Provided within a framework for recovery and staying well that focuses on emotional and interpersonal adaptation to psychosis, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, and mental health professionals will find this easy-to-read manual a valuable resource in their work with adults and adolescents. Softcover. Published 2006. Wiley UK. 2bp.
Using Homework Assignments in Cognitive Behavior Therapy
In its first volume, this book provides the theoretical and empirical basis for the use of homework in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). It offers support for the use of homework, models for practice, and systems for evaluating client compliance and therapist competence in administering assignments.
Focusing on the role of homework in cognitive therapy, it demonstrates successful methods of integration and discusses solutions to common barriers. Rather than offering one-size-fits-all, pre-designed tasks, the application of a model includes a detailed case study and recommendations for adjusting administration methods for particular problems and specific client populations.
This new volume presents strategies, techniques, and sample assignments that are tailored to specific populations, including children, older adults, couples, and families who face problems such as: anxiety and depression, chronic pain, delusions and hallucinations and marital and sexual problems, among several others.
With a full range of knowledge to successfully incorporate individualized homework assignments, this book brings into practice the proven long-term benefits of CBT. Using Homework Assignments in Cognitive Behavior Therapy summarizes key points from theoretical and empirical foundations for homework as well as innovations for clinical practice.
It suggests a greater focus on therapeutic collaboration and basing homework administration on conceptualization. The ‘model of practice’ provides a list of therapist facilitative behaviors theorized to encourage homework completion.
From case examples and clinical strategies to assessment measures, sample homework assignments and practice models, this text provides the practitioner with all the tools needed to incorporate homework into therapy practice.
Co-Occurring Substance Abuse and Mental Disorder
Clients with co-occurring disorders are some of the most difficult to treat and manage. They usually comprise the most demanding and frustrating cases. Fortunately, this book presents a basic overview of current evidence-based practices for treating co-occurring disorders and focuses on individuals who have both a mental illness and a co-morbid substance use disorder.
The author provides an "integrated" approach to treatments for both disorders and presents useful interventions. Several brief clinical vignettes present actual and/or representative cases of clients with co-occurring disorders. Each case highlights the complexities of assessment and treatment. Strategies offer an overview of this integrated treatment process.
Chapters focus on the screening, assessment, and treatment of clients with psychotic disorders, anxiety, and personality disorders. In addition, topics go over affective or “mood” disorders, which are the most prevalent co-occurring disorders. The text also addresses that clients with bipolar disorder or major depression frequently have a co-occurring substance use disorder.
Key features focus on:
• psychopharmacology and the two major roles in the treatment of dual disorders
• the seven “principles of treatment” for people with co-occurring psychiatric and substance abuse disorders
• the barriers to implementation of evidenced-based practices for treatment of co-occurring disorders
• the four general principles that underlie motivational interviewing
A segment discusses that the prevalence of anti-social personality disorder and substance abuse is high. It reviews two essential features of anti-social personality disorder, which include clients having a pervasive disregard for and violation of the rights of others and an inability to form meaningful interpersonal relationships.
While all mental disorders can co-occur with a substance use disorder, the most prevalent and most severe disorders are the focus of this book. Subjects address areas such as schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, major depression, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and more.
This book also discusses why clients with co-occurring disorders are at a greater risk for suicide and violence than others. It addresses why potential for self-harm and harm to others should continuously be assessed. Some assessment questions include asking clients if they are having any thoughts of suicide or self-harm, or if they have thought of or planned how to kill themselves.
Designed for clinicians in either the substance abuse or mental health treatment fields, this book offers the knowledge and skills required to effectively assess and treat co-occurring disorders.
The author provides an "integrated" approach to treatments for both disorders and presents useful interventions. Several brief clinical vignettes present actual and/or representative cases of clients with co-occurring disorders. Each case highlights the complexities of assessment and treatment. Strategies offer an overview of this integrated treatment process.
Chapters focus on the screening, assessment, and treatment of clients with psychotic disorders, anxiety, and personality disorders. In addition, topics go over affective or “mood” disorders, which are the most prevalent co-occurring disorders. The text also addresses that clients with bipolar disorder or major depression frequently have a co-occurring substance use disorder.
Key features focus on:
• psychopharmacology and the two major roles in the treatment of dual disorders
• the seven “principles of treatment” for people with co-occurring psychiatric and substance abuse disorders
• the barriers to implementation of evidenced-based practices for treatment of co-occurring disorders
• the four general principles that underlie motivational interviewing
A segment discusses that the prevalence of anti-social personality disorder and substance abuse is high. It reviews two essential features of anti-social personality disorder, which include clients having a pervasive disregard for and violation of the rights of others and an inability to form meaningful interpersonal relationships.
While all mental disorders can co-occur with a substance use disorder, the most prevalent and most severe disorders are the focus of this book. Subjects address areas such as schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, major depression, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and more.
This book also discusses why clients with co-occurring disorders are at a greater risk for suicide and violence than others. It addresses why potential for self-harm and harm to others should continuously be assessed. Some assessment questions include asking clients if they are having any thoughts of suicide or self-harm, or if they have thought of or planned how to kill themselves.
Designed for clinicians in either the substance abuse or mental health treatment fields, this book offers the knowledge and skills required to effectively assess and treat co-occurring disorders.
Why Mothers Kill
One of the few crimes that shocks society as a whole is the murdering of one's own children by their mothers. In order to prevent maternal filicide, infanticide, and neonaticide, author Geoffrey R. McKee presents more than a dozen case studies to help professionals understand and stop these horrific events from occurring. Among the several cases included is the study of Susan Smith and the widely publicized murder of her young children.
Dr. McKee applies current research findings to analyze, explain, and suggest practical interventions to alter the personal, familial, and situational circumstances that may influence some mothers to kill. With an emphasis on prevention, he offers specific strategies that might have been employed at various "risk intervention points" (RIPs) occurring before the child's death.
Why Mothers Kill describes the scientific study of dangerous behavior and highlights clinical and everyday situations in which risk analysis is commonplace. It introduces essential terms such as target behaviors, signal behaviors, risk factors, and protective factors. Additionally, the author presents the “Maternal Filicide Risk Matrix,” which was developed to help mental health and medical professionals determine the risk and protective factors that lead mothers to kill their children. The model discusses pregnancy, pregnancy and delivery, early postpartum, late postpartum, and postinfancy.
Strategies discuss:
• primary risk prevention programs
• secondary risk prevention programs
• family versus community bases risk prevention methods
Case chapters begin with a narrative of the mother's ideas and emotions before, during, and/or after her homicidal act. Important events from the mother's personal history before and after delivery identify experiences that helped shape her unique perceptions, attitudes, beliefs, and personality. Each story ends with an epilogue describing the legal resolution of the mother's case. It also reviews categories of the detached mother, retaliatory mother, psychopathic mother, abusive/neglectful mother, and psychotic/depressed mother.
Areas cover the difficulties in establishing true incidence rates of discovering bodies of abandoned children, determining the causes of children's deaths, and prosecutorial decisions about whether to bring cases to trial.
Why Mothers Kill is an important tool that can help provide an understanding, as well as strategies in the prevention of a mother killing of a child. Students and mental health professionals will find this a unique and important book.
Dr. McKee applies current research findings to analyze, explain, and suggest practical interventions to alter the personal, familial, and situational circumstances that may influence some mothers to kill. With an emphasis on prevention, he offers specific strategies that might have been employed at various "risk intervention points" (RIPs) occurring before the child's death.
Why Mothers Kill describes the scientific study of dangerous behavior and highlights clinical and everyday situations in which risk analysis is commonplace. It introduces essential terms such as target behaviors, signal behaviors, risk factors, and protective factors. Additionally, the author presents the “Maternal Filicide Risk Matrix,” which was developed to help mental health and medical professionals determine the risk and protective factors that lead mothers to kill their children. The model discusses pregnancy, pregnancy and delivery, early postpartum, late postpartum, and postinfancy.
Strategies discuss:
• primary risk prevention programs
• secondary risk prevention programs
• family versus community bases risk prevention methods
Case chapters begin with a narrative of the mother's ideas and emotions before, during, and/or after her homicidal act. Important events from the mother's personal history before and after delivery identify experiences that helped shape her unique perceptions, attitudes, beliefs, and personality. Each story ends with an epilogue describing the legal resolution of the mother's case. It also reviews categories of the detached mother, retaliatory mother, psychopathic mother, abusive/neglectful mother, and psychotic/depressed mother.
Areas cover the difficulties in establishing true incidence rates of discovering bodies of abandoned children, determining the causes of children's deaths, and prosecutorial decisions about whether to bring cases to trial.
Why Mothers Kill is an important tool that can help provide an understanding, as well as strategies in the prevention of a mother killing of a child. Students and mental health professionals will find this a unique and important book.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Recalling a past trauma often means reliving the actual experience to many people. It conjures images, sounds, smells, and feelings that can have long-lasting negative effects. It can also interfere with the way one sees the world and the way one relates to other people.
Fortunately, Mark Dworkin offers groundbreaking work and explores the subtle nuances of the therapeutic relationship and the vital role it plays in using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) with traumatized clients. He provides tools for mental health professionals to effectively apply, treat, and form stronger and healthier relationships with their clients.
Along with a forward written by the originator and developer of EMDR, Francine Shapiro, this text offers detailed cases and transcripts that lead clinicians through complete treatment approaches. It reveals practical applications of relational psychology and the creative uses for EMDR. In addition, material in this book reviews EMDR within an eight-phase approach and shows how relational issues play a key role in each phase of EMDR treatment.
Topic listed in EMDR and the Relational Imperative include:
• how to develop an atmosphere of trust
• ways to improve body awareness and reduce tension
• how to use EMDR with more than one member of the family
• the pitfalls and best practices of procedural steps for EMDR
• ways of working with transferential and countertransferential issues
The section on the three-pronged EMDR approach discusses the overall treatment of a client. It includes the client’s past experiences that set the groundwork for the pathology, the present situations or triggers that currently stimulate the disturbance, and the templates necessary for future action.
This text touches on the importance of clinician self-centering and self-awareness. It also offers appendixes with self-care exercises and a clinician awareness questionnaire.
Intended as a standard reference for all practitioners working to heal the wounds of trauma, this book is an essential resource for the effective application of EMDR.
Fortunately, Mark Dworkin offers groundbreaking work and explores the subtle nuances of the therapeutic relationship and the vital role it plays in using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) with traumatized clients. He provides tools for mental health professionals to effectively apply, treat, and form stronger and healthier relationships with their clients.
Along with a forward written by the originator and developer of EMDR, Francine Shapiro, this text offers detailed cases and transcripts that lead clinicians through complete treatment approaches. It reveals practical applications of relational psychology and the creative uses for EMDR. In addition, material in this book reviews EMDR within an eight-phase approach and shows how relational issues play a key role in each phase of EMDR treatment.
Topic listed in EMDR and the Relational Imperative include:
• how to develop an atmosphere of trust
• ways to improve body awareness and reduce tension
• how to use EMDR with more than one member of the family
• the pitfalls and best practices of procedural steps for EMDR
• ways of working with transferential and countertransferential issues
The section on the three-pronged EMDR approach discusses the overall treatment of a client. It includes the client’s past experiences that set the groundwork for the pathology, the present situations or triggers that currently stimulate the disturbance, and the templates necessary for future action.
This text touches on the importance of clinician self-centering and self-awareness. It also offers appendixes with self-care exercises and a clinician awareness questionnaire.
Intended as a standard reference for all practitioners working to heal the wounds of trauma, this book is an essential resource for the effective application of EMDR.
The Lucifer Effect
The “Lucifer Effect” describes the point when an ordinary, normal person begins to cross the boundary between good and evil to take part in an evil action. Leading social psychologist Philip Zimbardo explains the reasons why everyone is susceptible to the lure of “the dark side.” Drawing on examples from history, as well as his own trailblazing research, Zimbardo details how situational forces and group dynamics can work in concert to make monsters out of decent men and women.
Zimbardo is perhaps best known as the creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment. In this book, for the first time and in detail, he tells the full story of this landmark study, in which a group of college-student volunteers was randomly divided into “guards” and “inmates” and then placed in a mock prison environment. Within a week the study was abandoned, as ordinary college students were transformed into either brutal, sadistic guards or emotionally broken prisoners.
By illuminating the psychological causes behind such disturbing metamorphoses, Zimbardo enables individuals to better understand several distressing phenomena, from corporate malfeasance to organized genocide to how once upstanding American soldiers came to abuse and torture Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib. He replaces the notion of the “bad apple” with that of the “bad barrel”—the idea that the social setting and the system contaminate the individual, rather than the other way around.
Within these pages, individuals will find how humans are essentially social. Thus, creating semi-permanent networks and hierarchies of interaction and that it is more than just a strategy for survival.
Zimbardo explores a set of dynamic psychological processes, which can induce good people to do evil. Among them are deindividuation, obedience to authority, passivity in the face of threats, self-justification, and rationalization. He explains that dehumanization is one of the central processes in the transformation of ordinary, normal people into indifferent or even wanton perpetrators of evil. It clouds one’s thinking and fosters the perception that other people are less than human and are seen as enemies deserving of torment, torture, and annihilation.
This book examines what individuals are capable of doing when caught up in the crucible of behavioral dynamics. Zimbardo shows how to resist evil, and discusses how individuals can act heroically. He outlines a 10-step generic program to build resistance to mind control strategies and tactics. There is also a unique presentation of a thought experiment to involve people in engaging in progressively greater degrees of altruistic deeds that promote civic virtue.
The Lucifer Effect is a study that will change the way one views human behavior.
Zimbardo is perhaps best known as the creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment. In this book, for the first time and in detail, he tells the full story of this landmark study, in which a group of college-student volunteers was randomly divided into “guards” and “inmates” and then placed in a mock prison environment. Within a week the study was abandoned, as ordinary college students were transformed into either brutal, sadistic guards or emotionally broken prisoners.
By illuminating the psychological causes behind such disturbing metamorphoses, Zimbardo enables individuals to better understand several distressing phenomena, from corporate malfeasance to organized genocide to how once upstanding American soldiers came to abuse and torture Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib. He replaces the notion of the “bad apple” with that of the “bad barrel”—the idea that the social setting and the system contaminate the individual, rather than the other way around.
Within these pages, individuals will find how humans are essentially social. Thus, creating semi-permanent networks and hierarchies of interaction and that it is more than just a strategy for survival.
Zimbardo explores a set of dynamic psychological processes, which can induce good people to do evil. Among them are deindividuation, obedience to authority, passivity in the face of threats, self-justification, and rationalization. He explains that dehumanization is one of the central processes in the transformation of ordinary, normal people into indifferent or even wanton perpetrators of evil. It clouds one’s thinking and fosters the perception that other people are less than human and are seen as enemies deserving of torment, torture, and annihilation.
This book examines what individuals are capable of doing when caught up in the crucible of behavioral dynamics. Zimbardo shows how to resist evil, and discusses how individuals can act heroically. He outlines a 10-step generic program to build resistance to mind control strategies and tactics. There is also a unique presentation of a thought experiment to involve people in engaging in progressively greater degrees of altruistic deeds that promote civic virtue.
The Lucifer Effect is a study that will change the way one views human behavior.
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