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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Revised Edition
Introduction
SECTION I Killing and the Existence of the Resistance: A World of Virgins Studying Sex
Chapter One Fight or Flight, Posture or Submit
Chapter Two Nonfirers Throughout History
Chapter Three Why Can’t Johnny Kill?
Chapter Four The Nature and Source of the Resistance
SECTION II Killing and Combat Trauma: The Role of Killing in Psychiatric Casualties
Chapter One The Nature of Psychiatric Casualties: The Psychological Price of War
Chapter Two The Reign of Fear
Chapter Three The Weight of Exhaustion
Chapter Four The Mud of Guilt and Horror
Chapter Five The Wind of Hate
Chapter Six The Well of Fortitude
Chapter Seven The Burden of Killing
Chapter Eight The Blind Men and the Elephant
SECTION III Killing and Physical Distance: From a Distance, You Don’t Look Anything Like a Friend
Chapter One Distance: A Qualitative Distinction in Death
Chapter Two Killing at Maximum and Long Range: Never a Need for Repentance or Regret
Chapter Three Killing at Mid-and Hand-Grenade Range: “You Can Never Be Sure It Was You”
Chapter Four Killing at Close Range: “I Knew That It Was up to Me, Personally, to Kill Him”
Chapter Five Killing at Edged-Weapons Range: An “Intimate Brutality”
Chapter Six Killing at Hand-to-Hand-Combat Range
Chapter Seven Killing at Sexual Range: “The Primal Aggression, the Release, and the Orgasmic Discharge”
SECTION IV An Anatomy of Killing: All Factors Considered
Chapter One The Demands of Authority: Milgram and the Military
Chapter Two Group Absolution: “The Individual Is Not a Killer, but the Group Is”
Chapter Three Emotional Distance: “To Me They Were Less than Animals”
Chapter Four The Nature of the Victim: Relevance and Payoff
Chapter Five Aggressive Predisposition of the Killer: Avengers, Conditioning, and the 2 Percent Who Like It
Chapter Six All Factors Considered: The Mathematics of Death
SECTION V Killing and Atrocities: “No Honor Here, No Virtue”
Chapter One The Full Spectrum of Atrocity
Chapter Two The Dark Power of Atrocity
Chapter Three The Entrapment of Atrocity
Chapter Four A Case Study in Atrocity
Chapter Five The Greatest Trap of All: To Live with That Which Thou Hath Wrought
SECTION VI The Killing Response Stages
Chapter One What Does It Feel Like to Kill?
Chapter Two Applications of the Model: Murder-Suicides, Lost Elections, and Thoughts of Insanity
SECTION VII Killing in Vietnam: What Have We Done to Our Soldiers?
Chapter One Desensitization and Conditioning in Vietnam: Overcoming the Resistance to Killing
Chapter Two What Have We Done to Our Soldiers? The Rationalization of Killing and How It Failed in Vietnam
Chapter Three Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Cost of Killing in Vietnam
Chapter Four The Limits of Human Endurance and the Lessons of Vietnam
SECTION VIII Killing in America: What Are We Doing to Our Children?
Chapter One A Virus of Violence
Chapter Two Desensitization and Pavlov’s Dog at the Movies
Chapter Three B. F. Skinner’s Rats and Operant Conditioning at the Video Arcade
Chapter Four Social Learning and Role Models in the Media
Chapter Five The Resensitization of America
Notes
Bibliography
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