Northern Ireland : Society under Siege

Fields, Rona M.

Routledge（2024/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 284 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781138528932
• DDC分類 303.09416

Full Description

The troubles in Ireland are not new. They have taken a heavy toll in lives and, perhaps more importantly, in psychological health. From testing and interviews with the children, women, and men of Northern Ireland beginning in 1969, Fields has developed a case study of the long-term effects of stress on a population. She identifies certain social control mechanisms which produce a mixture of chaos and docility in the troubled North and argues that England has established these in order to destroy the identity of the people--a process of "psychological genocide." This volume applies social-psychological theory to a concrete and ongoing situation in a way that is illuminating for the general reader and for the specialist. Fields has done what might appear obvious: to find out the effects of stress on a population by going to that population and observing what their lives are like. The remarkable fact is that until now, no one has done so.

Contents

Foreword

Preface




Introduction: Ireland-The Victim



Psychological Genocide: Patriot Games Children Play



Psychotechnology: Its Effects



Social Control Mechanisms: Putting a Society on the Run



Women of Ireland: Slaves of Slaves



The British Army: In Command or on the Run?



The Blood of Martyrs



Social Control: Irish Ideology and the Mass Unconscious Appendix

Notes

Index