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Betty Kershner, Ph.D. - Registered Toronto Psychologist

post traumatic stress

Evil, Trauma, Post Traumatic Stress: Martha Marcy May Marlene

Posted on November 16, 2014

This year, Psychoanalysis and Cinema explores the concept of evil. As a culture, we tend to delegate evil to deviants and despots, people who are comfortably different from you and me. For those of us in this psychoanalytic extension program, being involved with or interested in psychoanalysis, we tend to think of behavior, including evil behavior, as emanating from the inner life, with evil deeds coming from people who are inherently if sometimes understandably flawed. What if the line between extreme evil and good is more permeable? What if, under certain kinds of circumstances, many if not most people could be induced to perform atrocities? What if evil can be called forth by the situation, by specific sets of circumstances that few could resist?

Posted in: Psychoanalysis and Cinema, Psychology, Trauma | Tagged: cult, evil, indoctrination, Milgram experiment, post traumatic stress, Stanford experiment, stress, trauma

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