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
