Sentences with phrase «psychic numbing»

I think about this is my studies of psychic numbing — which is but one of numerous vestiges of a brain that evolved to deal with much simpler and more recognizable forms of risk.

Second, entries on major features in human psychology that can contribute to human rights abuses (e.g. psychic numbing, dehumanization) are included.

Decision analysis processes are proposed to help overcome this psychic numbing.

Psychic numbing and mass atrocity.

Through his assault on his fears of weakness, a psychic numbing takes place which is then intended to be turned into aggressiveness toward a dehumanized «enemy.»

A survivor's rage is also suppressed in psychic numbing «like wandering in a half world — a state of «death in life.»

Lifton also agreed that there is the possibility of media audience psychic numbing, along with withdrawal and / or repression.

* psychic numbing as a diminished capacity for feeling death quilt felt by survivors death imprint as heightened vulnerability fascination with scenes of death a turning inward of anger in death / disaster renewal emerging from awareness of threats

Moving back in history, from Buffalo Creek to Hiroshima, we see five major themes in Lifton's analysis of Hiroshima survivors: death imprint, death guilt, psychic numbing, nurturance / contagion, and formulation (the need to rebuild).

Another significant factor (which might be related to «psychic numbing» among individuals, including media viewers of disasters) is noted:

Not exact matches

Psychic Space (from North of South, West of East), is a a scene taken from Danluck's feature film North of South, West of East in which a disgruntled auto industry worker, played by actor Ben Foster, seeks solace and escape from the numbing repetition of the factory through huffing solvent and nodding off in the men's room.