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On Killing

Paperback • 2009 • English

On Killing

By Dave Grossman

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About the book

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, ...Show more

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9780316040938

Publisher

Back Bay Books

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

On Killing

Format

Paperback

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