Advance praise for TYRANNY OF MALICE
"It is Joseph Berke's gift to illuminate history, politics, and the life of
societies. The dissection of malice could be a depressing exercise, but
his humanity and wisdom make it joyous and uplifting. As a working
biographer, I found this book rich with insights into a crucial but oft-
neglected area of human motive and behaviour. As a human being
concerned to understand myself better, I have learned still more."

"In a witty, scholarly and highly readable book, Dr Berke explores Malice, the product of envy, in all its manifestations. He confronts 'the evil eye', but does not leave us in despair. Through clinical observations and extensive readings, he also explores the solutions, the media of developing love, concern and awareness by which it may be detoxified and lose its power. This is a valuable study of a strangely neglected field and a deeply absorbing book." Dr Nina Coltart, Former Vice-President of the British Psycho-Analytical Society.

"Envy is to modern times what sex was to the Victorians, an obsession best forgotten, denied, or avoided," writes Joseph Berke in this brilliant study of the dark side of character and culture, THE TYRANNY OF MALICE. Drawing oil a vast range of sources, including world literature, history, anthropology, clinical case studies, and the daily news, Dr. Berke reveals the subtle yet powerful roles that malice plays ill the lives of individuals and families, societies and nations.

With examples as varied as Iago, John De Lorean, Margaret Thatcher, and the IRA, Dr. Berke explores the driving forces behind unusually greedy, spiteful, and destructive behaviour. He also shows how envy, greed and jealousy beget universal impulses to wreak revenge and to seek conformity (for fear of the "evil eye"). Ingrained in our earliest experience, negative states of mind are all essential part of being human, Dr. Berke believes. He goes oil to examine how malicious feelings are fostered and expressed in conflicts within families; and how they erupt onto the larger stage of society in vandalism and terrorism.

Envy, greed and jealousy can also engender destructive tensions between nations - not least between wealthy, industrialized ones and those of the Third World. Ill what Dr. Berke calls "the politics of malice countries both oppress their own citizens and foster aggressive nationalism: the Holocaust being this century's most devastating example.

"The overall purpose of my work," writes Dr. Berke, is to develop a detailed understanding of our capacity for destruction, as well is for making good." As he demonstrates, when the negative sides of our emotional life are denied or ignored (due to fear or guilt) the positive sides suffer too, for love and hate are inextricably bound. In this bold and redeeming book, Dr. Berke shows us how gratitude, generosity, and compassion act as healing counterparts to the dark emotional forces that complicate our lives.

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