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"This ground-breaking book introduces a new model of extremism that emphasizes motivational imbalance among individual needs, offering a unique multidisciplinary exploration of extreme behaviors relating to terrorism, dieting, sports, love, addictions, and money. In popular discourse, the term 'extremism' has come to mean largely 'violent extremism', but this is just one of many different types: extreme sports, extreme diets, political and religious extremisms, extreme self-interest, extreme attitudes, extreme devotion to a cause, addiction to substances, or behavioral addiction (to videogames, shopping, pornography, sex, work). But do these descriptions have a deeper meaning? Do they reveal a common psychological dynamic? Or are they merely a mode of things about phenomena that have little in common? Bringing together world-leading psychologists from a variety of disciplines, the book uses a brand-new model to examine different expressions of extremism, at different levels of analysis (brain, hormones, behavior), in order to not merely to describe such behaviors but also to explain their occurrence, and the conditions under which they may be likely to emerge. Also including suggestions for ways in which extremism could be counteracted, and to what extent it appears to be harmful to individuals and society, this is essential reading for students and academics in psychology and behavioral sciences"--

Extreme behavior (Psychology) --- Motivation (Psychology)

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Il se trouve que je me suis tenu un jour dans un lit d'hôpital, au dernier degré du désespoir. Quand soudain, la lecture de Pretium doloris de Cynthia Fleury orchestra ma rémission, m'intima de me relever. Le philosophe annonçait que l'accident offre l'occasion de se pencher sur soi, de recomposer l'espace, de réinventer la vie. Mais on aurait grand tort de réduire Pretium doloris à un guide de survie. Car la douleur, nous dit l'auteur, n'est pas l'apanage des blessés de la vie. Il n'y a pas besoin d'un accident physique pour comprendre que la vie nous couvre de ses bleus. Il y a besoin de Cynthia Fleury pour savoir quoi tirer de la difficulté d'être." Sylvain Tesson Cynthia Fleury, philosophe et psychanalyste, est professeur à l'American University of Paris. Elle est membre du Comité Consultatif National d'Ethique (CCNE) et de la cellule d'urgence médico-psychologique (CUMP) du SAMU-Necker.

Self Assessment --- Behavior Therapy --- Behavior - psychology --- Philosophy, Medical

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The question of how people develop extreme, radical or even terrorist ideas and behaviors is one which is attracting more and more scientific attention. There are many factors that contribute to such extremist attitudes. This book focuses on one specific contributor which has received only little attention in the past: social exclusion. Recent research shows that being kept apart from others, physically or emotionally, is a powerful event in people's lives. The chapters provide an overview of the existing body of research for the first time and explore the exclusion-extremism link in depth by gathering together a seminal collection of essays, written by leading social psychologists. Timely, novel, and highly instructive, this volume delivers an expert understanding of psychological underpinnings of such behavior and offer inspiration for future research.

Social isolation --- Extreme behavior (Psychology) --- Social psychology. --- Psychological aspects.

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Sex (Psychology) --- Psychology, Sexual --- Sex --- Sexual behavior, Psychology of --- Sexual psychology --- Sensuality --- Psychological aspects

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"With Heinrich Kaan's book we have then what could be called the date of birth, or in any case the date of the emergence, of sexuality and sexual aberrations in the psychiatric field."Michel Foucault, Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975Heinrich Kaan's fascinating work-part medical treatise, part sexual taxonomy, part activist statement, and part anti-onanist tract-takes us back to the origins of sexology. He links the sexual instinct to the imagination for the first time, creating what Foucault called "a unified field of sexual abnormality." Kaan's taxonomy consists of six sexual aberrations: masturbation, pederasty, lesbian love, necrophilia, bestiality, and the violation of statues. Kaan not only inaugurated the field of sexology, but played a significant role in the regimes of knowledge production and discipline about psychiatric and sexual subjects. As Benjamin Kahan argues in his Introduction, Kaan's text crucially enables us to see how homosexuality replaced masturbation as the central concern of Euro-American sexual regulation. Kaan's work (translated into English for the first time here) opens a new window onto the history of sexuality and the history of sexology and reconfigures our understanding of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's book of the same name, published some forty years later.

Sex (Psychology) --- Psychology, Sexual --- Sex --- Sexual behavior, Psychology of --- Sexual psychology --- Sensuality --- Psychological aspects