Revisiting Jonestown: An Interdisciplinary Study of Cults Hardcover – 13 December 2017
Domenico A. Nesci . Lexington Books . English
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.
Categories: Action & Adventure
About the Author
Domenico A. Nesci MD is a psychiatrist, criminologist, psycho-oncologist, and psychoanalyst (International Psychoanalytic Association, Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, and Los Angeles New Center for Psychoanalysis) in private practice, after his retirement from the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "Agostino Gemelli" IRCCS, in Rome (Italy). He cares for cancer patients and their relatives at DREAMS onlus, a non profit cooperative of psycho-oncologists and psychotherapists where he works as Vice President. He is Co-Director - together with Dominique Scarfone - at the Scuola Internazionale di Psicoterapia nel Setting istituzionale (SIPSI) which is a specialization school of psychotherapy credited by the Italian Dpt. of Research and University (MIUR) in Rome. He is President of The International Institute for Psychoanalytic Research and Training of Health Professionals (IIPRTHP). Dr. Nesci is an expert in Psycho-Oncology, Psychosomatic Medicine, Consultation Liaison-Psychiatry, Prenatal Psychology and Medicine, Ethnopsychoanalysis. He is the Author of about 150 scientific papers and several books in Italian, English, and French. He taught at Stanford (Dpt. of Psychology) and other prestigious universities. For his teaching activities from 1999 to 2001, Dr. Nesci was awarded Distinguished Visiting Professor by the Psychiatric Clinical Faculty Association of UCLA. A new book by Dr. Nesci is coming out soon: "Psychological Care for Cancer Patients: New Perspectives on Training Health Professionals." with a Foreword by Nancy McWilliams (Lexington Books, 2022).
