1st Edition

Northern Ireland Society Under Siege

By Rona M. Fields Copyright 1980
284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

The troubles in Ireland are not new. They have taken a heavy toll in lives and, perhaps more importantly, in psychological health. From testing and interviews with the children, women, and men of Northern Ireland beginning in 1969, Fields has developed a case study of the long-term effects of stress on a population. She identifies certain social control mechanisms which produce a mixture of chaos... Read more

Foreword

Preface

  1. Introduction: Ireland-The Victim
  2. Psychological Genocide: Patriot Games Children Play
  3. Psychotechnology: Its Effects
  4. Social Control Mechanisms: Putting a Society on the Run
  5. Women of Ireland: Slaves of Slaves
  6. The British Army: In Command or on the Run?
  7. The Blood of Martyrs
  8. Social Control: Irish Ideology and the Mass Unconscious Appendix

Notes

Index

Biography

Rona M. Fields, formerly associate professor of psychology at Clark University, is a psychologist and sociologist who has focused her research on social prejudice and violence in many different countries. While associate director of the National Center on the Study of Corporal Punishment and Its Alternatives, her 1973 report on the prevailing conditions in Northern Ireland was censored and withdrawn from the British market. Northern Ireland: Society Under Siege is an expanded analysis of that research., Alfred McClung Lee is professor emeritus of sociology and anthropology, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and visiting scholar at Drew University. Dr. Lee's research has emphasized the study of conflict, with special reference to the Irish.