harold Ralph Pettman

“Is There a ‘Japanese’ Approach to Conflict Resolution?”, Proceedings of the Fifth Afrasian International Symposium, (ed.) Nobuko Nagasaki, Pauline Kent, Kosuke Shimizu, Shiro Sato and Kazue Demachi, Afrasian Centre for Peace and Development Studies, Ryukoku University,

The relationship between psychopathology and world politics can be considered firstly from the world politics perspective. This means examining the dysfunctional forms of human behaviour manifest there-both individual and collective/communal. It means examining how such behaviour can be described and explained in psychiatric or psychological/psychoanalytical terms. The relationship between psychopathology and world politics can also be considered from the psychopathology perspective. This means examining some of the key psychopathological concepts that are of relevance to world affairs. It means examining paranoia or narcissism, for example, and the way understanding syndromes like these helps further our understanding of world affairs.