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British study has the goods on corporate execs
Fillmore, Nick
Article
2011
A study published by the journal Psychology, Crime and Law tested 39 senior managers and chief executives from leading businesses and compared the results with the same tests on patients at Broadmoor ...
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
Bakan, Joel
Book
2003
Makes the case that corporations function as a psychopathic entity. A companion to Mark Achbar's 2003 documentary of the same name.
The Corporation
Achbar, Mark; Abbott Jennifer
Film/Video
2004
The Corporation explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Reich, Wilhelm
Book
1933
Wilhelm Reich's class study, written during the years of the German crisis. Reich repudiates the concept that fascism is the ideology or action of a single individual or nationality, or any ethnic or ...
Nothing personal, just business
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2007
"A street entrepreneur or a life-destroying psychopath?" asks a review of the film American Gangster, which portrays the life of drug kingpin Frank Lucas. How is that an either-or choice?
Radical Digressions 4
Diemer, Ulli
Website
2006
The Whack 'Em and Stack 'Em Mentality of American Cops: Killers on the Road
St. Clair, Jeffrey; Cockburn, Alexander
Article
2013
Killings by police are not a negligible proportion of the United States' firearms death toll. The public apprehension that cops are often borderline psychotic, hair-trigger-ready to open fire on the s...

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Psychoanalysis
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Psychoanalysis is a body of ideas developed by Austrian physician Sigmund Freud and continued by others.
A Safe Place
Laying the Groundwork of Psychotherapy
Havens, Leston
1989
Hawkin examines the practice of psychotherapy and psychiatry and asks what allows psychological healing to take place.