Using depth psychology to develop a globally rooted psychoanalytic perspective, Jerry Kroth explores the psychological underpinnings of events, conflicts, and changes that may have deeper symbolic meanings than we generally suppose. Through his strategy of treating real occurrences as dreams arising from the collective unconscious, Kroth is able to derive clues to the significance of present happenings and identify incidents that have accurately predicted subsequent events.
Beginning with a dream interpretation approach to the Jim Jones phenomenon, Kroth discusses the power of the trickster archetype in American society. In another chapter, he connects the panic following Orson Welles's 1938 radio broadcast of H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds to a collective dream anticipating the cataclysm of World War II, which was to unfold only eleven months later. In the remaining chapters Kroth sifts through some of the omens and oracles that confront us today, finding many of the same foreboding conclusions. His examination of the Gorbachev revolution from the standpoint of Russian national character and psychohistory yields future scenarios less optimistic than have usually been anticipated. Other topics addressed are the collective dreams and portents encoded in the mass media, the Cambodian disaster as an aspect of the American shadow, and Israel's David-and-Goliath duel with the Palestinians. This incisive work is aimed at alerting us to the fact that consciously perceived events contain vital symbolic information on the psychological state of the union and suggest a number of unsettling future scenarios. Appropriate for general readers as well as classes and studies in clinical psychology, social psychology, cultural anthropology, political science, and related fields.

Omens and Oracles: Collective Psychology in the Nuclear Age

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Kroth, Jerry

Psychology & Counseling

Praeger

In Psychology Underground: from politically correct orthodoxies to a new century of inquiry Jerry Kroth embarks on a journey in pursuit of the suppressed and denied alternative hypothesis. In the chapter on Love we are treated to a massive sally against pop psychologists who sashay across afternoon TV thumping the hackneyed agenda that romantic love is delusory and that healthy relationships must be rooted in choice, individuality, and partnership. Contrary to such mainstream pulp, Dr. Kroth proposes love to be far less ego-mediated and instead a deeply-bonded, spiritual symbiotic co-dependency. In Mystery we are pulled into another inferno of contentiousness: parapsychology and synchronicity. From there the reader journeys to Maleness where we explore the disdained hypothesis that male propensities toward violence, dominance, competition, and sexual predation are far more biologically determined than the bias toward cultural determinism and patriarchy might ever be willing to admit. In Media a scathing expose of imitative learning scenarios which networks, MTV, and record producers exploit in marketing to children is meticulously delineated. From Beavis and Butthead to Columbine forty-five deaths of minors, primarily as a result of perpetrators acting out vicarious learning paradigms, are reported. The tardiness of the APA in speaking out is underscored. Chapters on Repetition, Healing, Art, Play, the Jungian Shadow, and an intriguing journey into collective prehistory (Wonder) round out this fresh, truth-seeking approach to psychology. Psychology Underground does not pose as a textbook. Rather, it accomplishes what it sets out to do: to shatter prejudices, to stimulate thinking, and to appeal to open minds that new ideas need to emerge in the stagnant waters political correctness left in its wake.

Psychology Underground: From Politicaly Correct Orthodoxies to a New Century of Inquiry

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Academic Renewal Press

On the 40th anniversary of one of the most important events in American history comes Conspiracy in Camelot: the complete history of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a dazzling, information-packed volume from New York’s Algora Publishers. Conspiracy in Camelot is a thoroughgoing analysis of the most relevant evidence uncovered and released by the government over the last 40 years, and a presentation of the most plausible conspiracy theories. 
From the cover up to Mafia murders, fingerprints to dictabelt recordings, a mountain of evidence is integrated into a comprehensive perspective on the assassination. Out of a field of 9 confessed assassins in the literature, Professor Kroth conducts five interviews with the leading grassy knoll suspect, James Files. Marilyn Monroe’s sexual liaisons with the Kennedy brothers, JFK’s 33 mistresses in the White House, and J. Edgar Hoover’s homosexuality and paranoia underscore the shadowy psychological underbelly of one of history’s greatest detective stories. Reaching beyond the criminal dimension, the text also looks at the deep and mysterious symbolism of this mythic tale, from the incredible array of synchronicities between Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln to the uncanny symbolic linkage the story has to King Arthur and Camelot.

Conspiracy in Camelot: A Complete History of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Assassination

History

Americas

Algora.Publishing

The Psychic Immune System theorizes the existence of a hidden variable that acts via both unconscious and conscious processes to protect humans individually and collectively from mortal threats. Much like the physical immune system, the psychic immune system scans for danger, protects, heals, and ensures human safety and survival. Kroth argues that it isn’t just luck that has enabled people to survive the multitude of epidemics, wars, and environmental disasters that could have resulted in extinction, but rather the work of a complex system that has enabled us to survive. Scrutinizing a variety of past and present threats, Kroth points to traces of a systematic force that has protected humans. Recommended for scholars of psychology, history, and political science.

The Psychic Immune System: A Hidden Epiphenomenon of the Body's Own Defenses

Lexington Books

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