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Malignant Pied Pipers of Our Time

Author : Peter A. Olsson
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
Release Date : 2005-06
ISBN 10 : 141377668X
Pages : 202 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (137 downloads)

Download Malignant Pied Pipers of Our Time PDF Full Free by Peter A. Olsson and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Dr. Peter A. Olsson examines the phenomenon of destructive and apocalyptic cults, revealing the psychological roots of both cult leaders and cult members. Dr. Olsson calls the leaders (Rev. Jim Jones, David Koresh, Osama bin Laden, and others) malignant pied pipers for the way they lure followers to their deaths. Olsson uses concepts of psychology to analyze the lives of the cult leaders and the source of their powerful attraction to vulnerable converts. Dr. Olsson offers his vision for the book: aIt is my hope that this in-depth psychological study of destructive cult leaders of the last 30 years illuminates the roots of their malevolence and their power, a condition that has invariably led to murder, mass suicide, the destruction of families, and to the terrorist acts that dominate our headlines. By understanding them and their appeal, we increase our chance of averting future disasters.a Dr. Olsson has been a psychiatrist for more than 30 years in Texas and New Hampshire. He is a professor of psychiatry and has published many scholarly papers and contributed chapters to eight books about psychology. He won the 1979 Judith Baskin Offer Prize for his paper aAdolescent Involvement with the Supernatural and Cults.a

Malignant Pied Pipers

Author : Peter A. Olsson, M.D.
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Release Date : 2017-08-28
ISBN 10 : 9781946539366
Pages : 212 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (393 downloads)

Download Malignant Pied Pipers PDF Full Free by Peter A. Olsson, M.D. and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than twenty years, I have studied destructive and apocalyptic cult leaders like Jim Jones, David Koresh (Waco), Shoko Asahara (Aum Shinriko), Marshall Applewhite (Heaven’s Gate), Charles Manson (Helter Skelter Murderers), and Luc Jouret and Joseph DiMambro (Suicidal Solar Temple). These cult leaders, the mesmerizing Malignant Pied Pipers of our time, led idealistic, father-hungry, or disillusioned young people away from their homes and toward destruction. Having an understanding of cult mentality and the pathological personalities of cult leaders is essential, for there are striking similarities between these deadly leaders and the newest examples, Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda cult of ultimate terror. The death toll from Jonestown, the Branch Davidian disaster at Waco, and Al Qaeda/ISIS terror cults of the last 30 years is horrendous. My previous book, A Boyish God, is a troubling novel with deep insights. I was jolted to my core when I learned that a college friend’s son died at the Rev. Jim Jones’s side at Jonestown. Over 30 years later, I am still searching for answers, especially about terror prevention.

Malignant Pied Pipers

Author : Peter A. Olsson
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Release Date :
ISBN 10 : 9781949483789
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (837 downloads)

Download Malignant Pied Pipers PDF Full Free by Peter A. Olsson and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than twenty years, I have studied destructive and apocalyptic cult leaders like Jim Jones, David Koresh (Waco), Shoko Asahara (Aum Shinriko), Marshall Applewhite (Heaven’s Gate), Charles Manson (Helter Skelter Murderers), and Luc Jouret and Joseph DiMambro (Suicidal Solar Temple). These cult leaders, the mesmerizing Malignant Pied Pipers of our time, led idealistic, father-hungry, or disillusioned young people away from their homes and toward destruction. Having an understanding of cult mentality and the pathological personalities of cult leaders is essential, for there are striking similarities between these deadly leaders and the newest examples, Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda cult of ultimate terror. The death toll from Jonestown, the Branch Davidian disaster at Waco, and Al Qaeda/ISIS terror cults of the last 30 years is horrendous. My previous book, A Boyish God, is a troubling novel with deep insights. I was jolted to my core when I learned that a college friend’s son died at the Rev. Jim Jones’s side at Jonestown. Over 30 years later, I am still searching for answers, especially about terror prevention.

The Trojan Horse President

Author : Peter A. Olsson and Laurence F. Messner
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Release Date : 2019-03
ISBN 10 : 9781950015139
Pages : 160 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (151 downloads)

Download The Trojan Horse President PDF Full Free by Peter A. Olsson and Laurence F. Messner and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authors Peter A. Olsson and Laurence F. Messner both had high hopes when Barack Obama was elected President of the United States. “We were impressed with Obama’s gift for moving and eloquent speeches. As both black and white himself, Obama had a unique opportunity. We had hopes that Obama would bring black America and white America together to continue our country’s solid progress toward freedom and justice for all,” the authors state. “After a severe economic crisis, we hoped for the return of American economic prosperity, military power, and spiritual leadership for peace in the world through American strength of leadership. We have been sorely disappointed in Mr. Obama! This book expresses our intense disappointments and the rationale behind our thinking.” The opinions, discussions, and correspondence in The Trojan Horse President took place from soon after Barack Obama’s election to the presidency until just before the presidential election of 2016.

Delusions and the Madness of the Masses

Author : Lawrie Reznek
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2010-11-16
ISBN 10 : 9781442206076
Pages : 254 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (6 downloads)

Download Delusions and the Madness of the Masses PDF Full Free by Lawrie Reznek and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the author, there is an alarming inclination for people to succumb to delusional thinking. Contrary to popular opinion, such thought processes are not limited to the mentally ill. Instead, there is growing evidence to show that large segments of the public harbor a wide variety of delusions, none of which are innocent, and many of which are pushing our societies to the brink of war. This book aims to understand the nature of delusions and how they are generated. By providing a deeper understanding of delusions, the author challenges the assumption that a whole community cannot be deluded, concluding that even very large groups of people can be considered collectively mad. Reznek offers case studies of madness both in individuals and in society throughout the book, relieving the reader of requiring a first-hand experience of psychosis, and revealing the nature of delusions as they affect us all.

The Fifth Rule of Ten

Author : Gay Hendricks, Ph.D.
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Release Date : 2016-08-09
ISBN 10 : 9781401948672
Pages : 385 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (486 downloads)

Download The Fifth Rule of Ten PDF Full Free by Gay Hendricks, Ph.D. and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a fundraising event for Los Angeles’ Buddhist temple goes awry, Ten Norbu finds himself mired in a web of crime that only a former monk turned private investigator can solve Be mindful, both making and keeping commitments, that they be springboards to liberation, instead of suffering. —The Fifth Rule of Ten Ten and his fiancée, Julie, excitedly await the arrival of Ten’s best friends, Lama Yeshe and Lama Lobsang. Ten’s boyhood friends are now the Head Abbots at Tenzing’s former monastic home in India. Ten has helped Yeshe and Lobsang organize a fundraising event sponsored by the Los Angeles Buddhist temple where Tenzing first taught years ago, before shedding his robes to attend the police academy. The big feature of the event will be the unveiling of a sacred sand-painted mandala that the monks will construct in the center of the temple. At the premiere, however, a group of hooligans commit an outrageous act that catapults the story into action. To complicate matters, one of the novice lamas—a brilliant protégé of Lobsang’s—goes missing. Soon a series of strange crimes beset the city, some physical, some cyber. Each crime is unique, but all are mysteriously interconnected. Ten’s attempts to solve those crimes pull him into a dark mirror-world of his sacred Tibetan Buddhist tradition; soon he is engaged in a life-and-death battle with a powerful shadow presence. He joins forces with Yeshe, Lobsang, his ex-partner, Bill, and his hack-tivist buddy, Mike, to track down the Patient Zero of this epidemic of criminal chaos. Finally, he must face the truth: the source of the evil, and the solution, are a lot closer to home than he first thought.

Houston's Homegrown Terror

Author : Peter Alan Olsson
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Release Date : 2014-03-11
ISBN 10 : 9781628579925
Pages : 124 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (799 downloads)

Download Houston's Homegrown Terror PDF Full Free by Peter Alan Olsson and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychotherapists help police find two homegrown terrorists in the crime thriller Houston's Homegrown Terror. When two bombs explode at St. John's High School in Houston, psychotherapists Tom and Andrea Tolman assist their friend, Houston Police Detective Mark Lane, in the intense investigation. They need to find the terrorists before they can strike again! Andrea is a former nun who left her order to marry Tom, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with expertise in treating adolescents, and in understanding destructive religious cults and terrorist groups. After 9/11, the couple and the detective became friends when they helped a family threatened by the father's involvement with a Satanic cult. Now, ten years later, they are challenged by these local bombers. The story explains the depth of psychology as well as the powerful motivations of the American homegrown terrorists and their group.

Banned Questions About Christians

Author : Piatt, Christian
Publisher : Chalice Press
Release Date : 2014-01-15
ISBN 10 : 9780827202870
Pages : 208 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (28 downloads)

Download Banned Questions About Christians PDF Full Free by Piatt, Christian and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest book in the insightful and entertaining Banned Questions series addresses fifty questions about Christians that many of us have wondered regarding Hell, sprinkle vs dunk baptism, gay and lesbian issues in ministry, the inconsistencies of communion, the multitude of denominations, God's allowance of suffering in the world, and more. This is a great addition to your library as you (or your study group) ponder the questions many have wanted to ask and few were brave enough to answer.

Off Center, Off Course: How Sata's Lies Disrupt Christian Living

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Publisher : High Ground Press
Release Date :
ISBN 10 : 9780975404553
Pages : 206 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (45 downloads)

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A Boyish God

Author : Peter Alan Olsson
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Release Date : 2013-01
ISBN 10 : 9781622126163
Pages : 156 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (261 downloads)

Download A Boyish God PDF Full Free by Peter Alan Olsson and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The playground at Saint Thomas Moore School in Houston has become a terrifying place. When Sister Agnes hears young Will's fiery funeral sermon for a dead bird, she must comfort a group of fearful students. At the forceful insistence of his teachers, Will Powers reluctantly stops his explosive sermon. Will's teacher thinks that his parents, and particularly his father, seem very troubled. The parents won't return Sister Agnes's phone calls about similar events involving Will. School psychologist Sister Andrea Albright turns for help to a trusted psychiatrist friend, Dr. Tom Tolman. The ensuing therapy is seen from Will's perspective and the "helpful" adults around him. Those who would aid the boy instead reveal perspectives on psychotherapy's ability to thwart the evil of malignant self-absorption. And along the path of Will's therapy, Sister Andrea and her friend Tom find genuine love and romance. A Boyish God is a troubling novel with deep insights. Says the author, "I was jolted to my core when I learned that a college friend's son died at the Rev. Jim Jones's side at Jonestown. Two books and over thirty years later, I am still searching for answers...especially about terror prevention." Peter Alan Olsson is a retired psychiatrist/psychoanalyst. His four published nonfiction books are Malignant Pied Pipers of Our Time: From the Rev. Jim Jones to Osama Bin Laden; The Cult of Osama: Psychoanalyzing Bin Laden and His Magnetism for Muslim Youths; If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Advice to a Young Psychotherapist; and Poems Behind a Psychiatrist's Couch.

Researching Power, Elites and Leadership

Author : Christopher Williams
Publisher : SAGE
Release Date : 2012-05-18
ISBN 10 : 9781446267967
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (679 downloads)

Download Researching Power, Elites and Leadership PDF Full Free by Christopher Williams and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-05-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting new text consolidates the hows and whys of researching powerful people. Written by a leading authority in the field, this book introduces the reader to a significant area of methodology, and provides a research-based contribution to elite and leadership studies. It offers a truly international perspective that will appeal to those studying and engaging with powerful people in a variety of contexts. Useful features include: - A variety of case studies and examples linked to over 1000 sources and resources - Extensive use of figures throughout the text to illustrate key points - Templates and models for planning and presentations The book promotes a practical future-oriented approach to support and inspire academic, professional and civil society researchers at all levels. It introduces new research frameworks and facilitates critical techniques through Critical Process Analysis. This is a must-have resource and an excellent new addition to the field of elite and leadership studies.

Religious Knives

Author : Jouni Suistola
Publisher : Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)
Release Date : 2017-09-01
ISBN 10 : 9781634311311
Pages : 184 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (113 downloads)

Download Religious Knives PDF Full Free by Jouni Suistola and published by Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA). This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely multidimensional study, historian Jouni Suistola and psychoanalyst Vamik D. Volkan draw on their respective disciplines and their own personal and professional experiences to investigate the historical and psychological roots of terrorism. Specifically, what is it in human nature that allows people to terrorize and kill the other, and what societal factors—whether political, economic, or religious—lead to terrorism? And, in turn, how might terrorist ideologies and groups be defeated, especially when a society's realistic fears are contaminated with xenophobia, racism, and fantasized dangers? Focusing specifically on modern-day radical Islamist terrorism, the authors argue that studying the minds of individual terrorists can tell us something about those individuals, but that only by examining the deeper historical, political, and society-wide psychological processes at work will we be able to uncover the core causes of terrorism. Only through such understanding, they conclude, will the world be positioned to prevent further radicalization and create lasting and peaceful solutions to the seemingly intractable problem of terrorist violence.

Terrorism, Political Violence, and Extremism: New Psychology to Understand, Face, and Defuse the Threat

Author : Chris E. Stout Ph.D.
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2017-05-24
ISBN 10 : 9781440851933
Pages : 357 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (519 downloads)

Download Terrorism, Political Violence, and Extremism: New Psychology to Understand, Face, and Defuse the Threat PDF Full Free by Chris E. Stout Ph.D. and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-read for psychologists—clinical and academic alike—as well as for political scientists, policy analysts, and others working in the realm of terrorism, political violence, and extremism, this book carefully explores the theories, observations, and approaches of authorities in the field and addresses how and why terrorism has perpetuated for so long. • Addresses how various groups are affected by terrorism, including children, older adults, and, arguably more relevant than ever before, refugees • Tackles the perplexing question of why terrorism has remained such a difficult problem to overcome • Includes contributions from Islamic subject matter expert, scholar, and author Dr. Sayed Ammar Nakshawani, listed among The 500 Most Influential Muslims • Serves as appropriate reading for students taking courses in subjects ranging from international psychology, military psychology and theory, political science, and political theory to religious studies, peace studies, military sciences, law enforcement, social work, feminist theory, public health, sociology, and anthropology

Systemic Humiliation in America

Author : Daniel Rothbart
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2018-03-30
ISBN 10 : 9783319706795
Pages : 246 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (67 downloads)

Download Systemic Humiliation in America PDF Full Free by Daniel Rothbart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores contemporary social conflict, focusing on a sort of violence that rarely receives coverage in the evening news. This violence occurs when powerful institutions seek to manipulate the thoughts of marginalized people—manufacturing their feelings and fostering a sense of inferiority—for the purpose of disciplinary control. Many American institutions strategically orchestrate this psychic violence through tactics of systemic humiliation. This book reveals how certain counter-measures, based in a commitment to human dignity and respect for every person’s inherent moral worth, can combat this violence. Rothbart and other contributors showcase various examples of this tug-of-war in the US, including the politics of race and class in the 2016 presidential campaign, the dehumanizing treatment of people with mental disabilities, and destructive parenting styles that foster cycles of humiliation and emotional pain.

The Making of a Homegrown Terrorist: Brainwashing Rebels in Search of a Cause

Author : Peter A. Olsson MD
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2014-02-25
ISBN 10 : 9781440831027
Pages : 198 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (31 downloads)

Download The Making of a Homegrown Terrorist: Brainwashing Rebels in Search of a Cause PDF Full Free by Peter A. Olsson MD and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the factors that lead some individuals to become terrorists? In this book, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst examines case histories of terrorism and reveals how radicalized youths living next door can become dangerous homegrown terrorists. • Presents a detailed study of 20 homegrown terrorists' life situations and psychodynamics that will not only answer questions for general readers, such as "What were the two brothers behind the Boston Marathon bombings really like?" but also supply psychiatrists, psychologists, law enforcement officers, and homeland security experts with invaluable insights for interviewing possible homegrown terrorists • Pinpoints reasons for radicalization among young people at a vulnerable, "in-between" period in their lives, such as conflicts with parents, disagreement with their parents' views about religion, or the perception that they are hypocritical • Covers acts of domestic terrorism in the 20th century ranging from the activities of the Weather Underground group in the 1970s to Timothy McVeigh's truck bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995 to the Boston Marathon bombings of 2013

The Banality of Suicide Terrorism

Author : Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2010
ISBN 10 : 9781597976015
Pages : 165 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (76 downloads)

Download The Banality of Suicide Terrorism PDF Full Free by Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrorist organizations have been able to market mass murder under hysteria's banner of alleged martyrdom. But when it comes to understanding Islamic suicide terrorism in particular, there is much more to it than martyrdom. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Kobrin dismantles the psychological dynamics of suicide terrorism to help the reader gain a new perspective on one of the most destructive forces the world has witnessed to date. Until now, no one has explained why the mother-child relationship is central to understanding Islamic suicide terrorism. The Banality of Suicide Terrorism exposes the very ordinariness of one of the deepest yet most poorly understood causes of the suicide bomber's motivation: a profound terror of abandonment that is rooted in the mother-child relationship. According to Kobrin, this terror is so great in the would-be suicide terrorist that he or she must commit suicide (and mass murder in the process) in order to fend off that terror of dependency and abandonment. Suicide terrorists seek a return to the bond with the mother of early childhood-- known as maternal fusion--by means of a "death fusion" with their enemies, who subconsciously represent the loved (and hated) maternal figure. The terrorist's political struggle merely serves as cover for this emotionally terrifying inner turmoil, which can lead down the path of ultimate destruction.

God, Freud and Religion

Author : Dianna T. Kenny
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2015-03-05
ISBN 10 : 9781317649656
Pages : 234 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (496 downloads)

Download God, Freud and Religion PDF Full Free by Dianna T. Kenny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choice Essential Read Did God create man or did man create God? In this book, Dianna Kenny examines religious belief through a variety of perspectives – psychoanalytic, cognitive, neuropsychological, sociological, historical and psychiatric – to provide a coherent account of why people might believe in God. She argues that psychoanalytic theory provides a fertile and creative approach to the study of religion that attempts to integrate religious belief with our innate human nature and developmental histories that have unfolded in the context of our socialization and cultural experiences. Freud argued that religion is so compelling because it solves the problems of our existence. It explains the origin of the universe, offers solace and protection from evil, and provides a blueprint about how we should live our lives, with just rewards for the righteous and due punishments for sinners and transgressors. Science, on the other hand, offers no such explanations about the universe or the meaning of our lives and no comfort for the unanswered longings of the human race. Is religion a form of wish-fulfilment, a collective delusion to which we cling as we try to fathom our place and purpose in the drama of cosmology? Can there be morality without faith? Are science and religion radically incompatible? What are the roots of fundamentalism and terror theology? These are some of the questions addressed in God, Freud and Religion, a book that will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychologists and psychotherapists, students of psychology, psychoanalysis, philosophy and theology and all those with an interest in religion and human behaviour. Dianna Kenny is Professor of Psychology at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of over 200 publications, including six books.

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