《On Killing》是Back Bay Books出版的圖書，作者是Dave Grossman
基本介紹
- ISBN：9780316040938
- 作者：Dave Grossman
- 出版社：Back Bay Books
- 出版時間：2009年6月22日
- 頁數：416
- 定價：USD 15.99
- 裝幀：Paperback
內容簡介
The good news is that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to kill in battle. Unfortunately, modern armies, using Pavlovian and operant conditioning have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. The psychological cost for soldiers, as witnessed by the increase in post-traumatic stress, is devastating. The psychological cost for the rest of us is ...(展開全部) The good news is that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to kill in battle. Unfortunately, modern armies, using Pavlovian and operant conditioning have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. The psychological cost for soldiers, as witnessed by the increase in post-traumatic stress, is devastating. The psychological cost for the rest of us is even more so: 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 first 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 the soldier, and of the societal implications of escalating violence. Now, Grossman has updated this classic work to include information on 21st-century military conflicts, recent crime rates, suicide bombings, school shootings, and much more. The result is a work that is sure to be relevant and important for decades to come. 作者戴夫·格羅斯曼中校，歷任美軍第82空降師中士、第9步兵師排長、第7步兵師參謀官和連長，曾是傘降步兵、遊騎兵。他曾在北極附近的凍原地帶執行任務，也曾被派往中美洲的叢林、北約總部、華約，以及難以計數的山地和沙漠。他畢業於美國第18空降兵軍士學院和英國陸軍參謀學院，以特優成績完成了歷史和心理學專業課程，後任西點軍校心理學教授。1998年退役後，在阿肯色州立大學任軍事科學教授和系主任，在教學寫作之餘，為全美各地退伍軍人聯合會做巡迴演講，並擔任過多樁震驚全美的校園槍擊案審判中的專家證人和顧問，其研究觀點亦獲得美國總統國情咨文引用。
