Revisiting Jonestown : An Interdisciplinary Study of Cults

Domenico Arturo Nesci

ISBN 10: 1498552692 / ISBN 13: 9781498552691

Published by Lexington Books, 2017

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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. Seller Inventory # 9781498552691

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Title: Revisiting Jonestown : An Interdisciplinary ...

Publisher: Lexington Books

Publication Date: 2017

Binding: Buch

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Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

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).