Alan Jacobs is an author and independent researcher on comparative genocide and the abuse of power. He was formerly a psychotherapist, and has published several articles on the structure of dictatorship, aspects of genocide and related issues, four of which won the 1996 Eric Berne Memorial Award for original theory. He has conducted workshops, and given papers in several countries and some of his articles have been translated into several languages.

Jacobs, the editor of IDEA, is also the editor of the psychotherapy Internet journal TAJnet (http://www.tajnet.org), an assistant editor at the H-Net mailing list H-HOLOCAUST, and a contributing editor at Cybrary of the Holocaust (http://www.remembr.org). He is also the editor of the H-Net academic mailing list H-Genocide (http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~genocide/)

E-mail: ajacobs@bravenewweb.com

Publications available on IDEA:

Nationalism
December 27, 2009 Vol.13, No.1
Photography Exhibit
March 12, 2005 Vol.10, No.1
Art and Photography exhibit
July 14, 2003 Vol.8, No.1
Photography exhibit
September 1, 1997 Vol.2, no.3
Photography exhibit
April 1, 1997 Vol.2, no.2
Death, Survival and the Radiance of Invulnerability
January 11, 1997 Vol.2, no.1
Aspects of Survival: Triumph over Death and Onliness
January 11, 1997 Vol.2, no.1
Lies
September 1, 1996 Vol.1, no.2
Autocracy
September 1, 1996 Vol.1, no.2
Autocratic Power
May 1, 1996 Vol.1, no.1
Charlotte Delbo: Auschwitz and After
May 1, 1996 Vol.1, no.1
Processing
May 1, 1996 Vol.1, no.1
Photography exhibit
May 1, 1996 Vol.1, no.1
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