Northern Ireland: Society Under SiegeTransaction Publishers, 1980 M01 1 - 267 pages The troubles in Ireland are not new. They have taken a heavy toll in lives and, perhaps more importantly, in psychological health. From testing and interviews with the children, women, and men of Northern Ireland beginning in 1969, Fields has developed a case study of the long-term effects of stress on a population. She identifies certain social control mechanisms which produce a mixture of chaos and docility in the troubled North and argues that England has established these in order to destroy the identity of the people-a process of "psychological genocide." This volume applies social-psychological theory to a concrete and ongoing situation in a way that is illuminating for the general reader and for the specialist. Fields has done what might appear obvious: to find out the effects of stress on a population by going to that population and observing what their lives are like. The remarkable fact is that until now, no one has done so. |
Contents
Introduction IrelandThe Victim | 1 |
Psychological Genocide Patriot Games Children Play | 27 |
Psychotechnology Its Effects | 56 |
A Social Control Mechanisms Putting a Society on the Run | 70 |
Women of Ireland Slaves of Slaves | 103 |
The British Army In Command or on the Run? | 129 |
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