Revisiting Jonestown: An Interdisciplinary Study of Cults (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781498552691)

Revisiting Jonestown covers three main topics: the psycho-biography of Jim Jones (the leader of the suicidal community) from the new perspective of Prenatal Psychology and transgenerational trauma, the story of his Peoples Temple, with emphasis on what kind of leadership and membership were responsible for their tragic end, and the interpretation of death rituals by religious cults as regression to primordial stages of human evolution, when a series of genetic mutations changed the destiny of Homo Sapiens, at the dawn of religion and human awareness. A pattern of collective suicide is finally identified, making it possible to foresee and try to prevent its tragic repetition. At the same time, through an artistic editorial work on original images from the Peoples Temple files, a sort of Multimedia Psychotherapy is subliminally delivered in order to help the mourning of the victims of Jonestown, to whose memory the book is dedicated.

Author: Domenico Arturo Nesci
ISBN-10: 1498552692
ISBN-13: 9781498552691
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 12/13/2017
Pages: 178
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2018