Full name: On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

Author: Dave Grossman Year: 1995 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Psychology, War/Military, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780316191449 9780316040938 0316191442 0316040932

The good news is that most soldiers are loath to kill. But armies have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. And contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, replicates the army's conditioning techniques, and, according to Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's thesis, is responsible for our rising rate of murder among the young. Upon its initial publication, On Killing was hailed as a landmark study of the techniques the military uses to overcome the powerful reluctance to kill, of how killing affects soldiers, and of the societal implications of escalating violence. Now, Grossman has updated this classic work to include information on 21st-century military conflicts, recent trends in crime, suicide bombings, school shootings, and more. The result is a work certain to be relevant and important for decades to come. Similar books: On Combat, The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace by Dave Grossman Acts of War by Richard Holmes Achilles in Vietnam by Jonathan Shay Tribe by Sebastian Junger The Wisdom of Psychopaths by Kevin Dutton Mindwise by Nicholas Epley Churchill's Black Dog, Kafka's Mice, and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind by Anthony Storr The Assault on Truth by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Shutting Out the Sun by Michael Zielenziger Crazy Like Us by Ethan Watters The Social Leap by William von Hippel Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt In the Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm The Manufacture of Madness by Thomas S. Szasz Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks Future Babble by Dan Gardner The Book of Woe by Gary Greenberg The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson