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- Title
JIM JONES: IN THE MIDDLE OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL FATE AND SPIRITUAL CALL.
- Authors
Osman, Alexandra Haj; Mănescu, Andreea; Tatu, Ovidiu; Nireştean, Aurel
- Abstract
We look at the life of a well-known spiritual leader and mass killer from a clinical and psycho-social standpoint. We outline a psychopathological profile based on biographic data and we try to offer explanations of a profoundly inexplicable event - the mass suicide/killings that took place 40 years ago in Jonestown. This case arises not only psychological but also ethical questions. Could the event be the culmination of a malignant narcissistic personality or the climax in which they self-sacrifice in the name of a spiritual faith or a reincarnated god in the person of a charismatic leader. Could such events be prevented in the future? We will make breif comments in an atempt to delimit a predisposed psychopathological profile for mass manipulation. The dinamic of the relationship between the manipulator and the one being manipulated gives us a new integrative perspective, representing, in fact, two faces of the same coin.
- Subjects
MASS murderers; RELIGIOUS leaders; JONESTOWN Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978; MANIPULATIVE behavior; NARCISSISTIC personality disorder
- Publication
Acta Medica Marisiensis, 2019, Vol 65, p14
- ISSN
2068-3324
- Publication type
Article