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October 7 Session - 'Cults' and 'Branding' - Follow Up

8/10/2020

Thanks again to Bev and Deb for guiding fabulous and interesting discussions ... with no notice. The notion of branding and cults in relation to Trump just keeps adding to the many Trump layers.

The Crikey article referred to in class is by Mike Davis (2020) Emperor Trump: deciphering the mind of an American nightmare Crikey.com, September 25, 2020,

The book Bev spoke about is by Steven Hassan (2019) 'The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert explains how the President uses mind control', Free Press.

Here's the link for Deb's Naomi Klein youtube.

"The Psychological Dirt on Gardening" will be on the web soon.

I'll have fun researching these topics:

Fake News, and
Psychology of religion.

Keep sending anything my way that you find and think will be interesting. I'm going to begin with humorous commentary.

Jane

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Course Content Sem II

Demystifying Psychology

A ten-session light-hearted course introducing psychology in everyday life and some of the theories that attempt to explain how and why we do things. The course will include personality types and preferred coping styles; theories and practices applied to drug treatment, raising children, family violence, and other topics as suggested by participants. The course will also include social psychology, the concepts of obedience, power, group dynamics and states of mind. We'll then discuss how we experience the various theories as they play out in daily life.

Sessions - which include both course content and discussion components - are held on the third Friday from 1 to 3 at U3A and the 1st Monday from 10 to 12 pm at 'The Hub'. These are replaced by Zoom sessions if necessary.