MASS PANIC AND SOCIAL ATTACHMENT: THE DYNAMICS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR Anthony R. Mawson Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007, 309 pp., $124.95 (hardcover)
A psychotherapist, musing on mortality, mentioned to me that, were the plane to go down, she would prefer be traveling from a vacation with her spouse so as to spend the last moments with a person she loved devotedly. Anthony Mawson applies science to human responses to catastrophe. Mass Panic and Social Attachment begins curiously invitingly: It is dedicated to Professor Mawson's parents and brother, it is introduced with a chronicle of an academic career not overlooking warm details such as the author's musical performances …

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