Domenico Arturo Nesci

Revisiting Jonestown (eBook, ePUB)

An Interdisciplinary Study of Cults

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498552707
• Artikelnr.: 50391667

Autorenporträt

Domenico Arturo Nesci is professor of community psychology at the Nursing School of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and psycho-oncology at the Scuola Internazionale di Psicoterapia nel Setting Istituzionale (SIPSI) in Rome, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Jim Jones: Psychobiography of a Cult Leader
Chapter 2: Peoples Temple and Placental Leadership
Chapter 3: Peoples Temple and Syncytial Membership
Chapter 4: From Miracles and Exoduses to the White Night
Chapter 5: Interdisciplinary Reflections
Chapter 6: The Death Ritual of Jonestown
Chapter 7: Fractals