Revisiting Jonestown
An Interdisciplinary Study of Cults
Seiten
2019
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-5271-4 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-5271-4 (ISBN)
Revisiting Jonestown: An Interdisciplinary Study of Cults examines the Jonestown massacre to reveal a new understanding of vital issues concerning cults, such as the origins of human awareness, religion, and death rituals, including collective suicide, genocide, and war.
Revisiting Jonestown covers three main topics: the psycho-biography of Jim Jones (the leader of the suicidal community) from the new perspective of Prenatal Psychology and transgenerational trauma, the story of his Peoples Temple, with emphasis on what kind of leadership and membership were responsible for their tragic end, and the interpretation of death rituals by religious cults as regression to primordial stages of human evolution, when a series of genetic mutations changed the destiny of Homo Sapiens, at the dawn of religion and human awareness. A pattern of collective suicide is finally identified, making it possible to foresee and try to prevent its tragic repetition. At the same time, through an artistic editorial work on original images from the Peoples Temple files, a sort of Multimedia Psychotherapy is subliminally delivered in order to help the mourning of the victims of Jonestown, to whose memory the book is dedicated.
Revisiting Jonestown covers three main topics: the psycho-biography of Jim Jones (the leader of the suicidal community) from the new perspective of Prenatal Psychology and transgenerational trauma, the story of his Peoples Temple, with emphasis on what kind of leadership and membership were responsible for their tragic end, and the interpretation of death rituals by religious cults as regression to primordial stages of human evolution, when a series of genetic mutations changed the destiny of Homo Sapiens, at the dawn of religion and human awareness. A pattern of collective suicide is finally identified, making it possible to foresee and try to prevent its tragic repetition. At the same time, through an artistic editorial work on original images from the Peoples Temple files, a sort of Multimedia Psychotherapy is subliminally delivered in order to help the mourning of the victims of Jonestown, to whose memory the book is dedicated.
Domenico A. Nesci, MD, is professor of community psychology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, president of the International Institute for Psychoanalytic Research and Training of Health Professionals (IIPRTHP), vice president of DREAMS onlus, and co-director of the Scuola Internazionale di Psicoterapia nel Setting Istituzionale (SIPSI).
Chapter 1: Jim Jones: Psychobiography of a Cult Leader
Chapter 2: Peoples Temple and Placental Leadership
Chapter 3: Peoples Temple and Syncytial Membership
Chapter 4: From Miracles and Exoduses to the White Night
Chapter 5: Interdisciplinary Reflections
Chapter 6: The Death Ritual of Jonestown
Chapter 7: Fractals
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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Vorwort | Nancy McWilliams |
Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 151 x 228 mm |
Gewicht | 281 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4985-5271-4 / 1498552714 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-5271-4 / 9781498552714 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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