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An eye-opening, revisionist analysis of the social and psychological roots of violence argues that violence should be approached as a problem in public health and preventative medicine, rather than one of biological or moral origins, and that shame is the common denominator that links violent perpetrators.
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Still the key book on understanding violence, its causes, and its aftermath
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James Gilligan has written a stunning book about violence. As a psychiatrist who has spent twenty-five years of his professional life treating men who committed murder, Gilligan draws poignantly on his work with prisoners to help us understand what motivates desperate men. In the end, he offers a compelling psychoanalytic explanation of violence while calling on society to take social, economic and cultural measures to help prevent the 'deadly epidemic' from spreading. (Judith Friedlander, PhD., Dean of the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School for Social Research)
Dr. Gilligan offers a personal and passionate summing up of his decades of empathic clinical work with men who have committed horrible crimes, and he succeeds in deepening our understanding of their inner lives, the dark world of prisons they inhabit, and the violence that pervades... society. (Donald J. Cohen, M.D., Director, Yale Child Study Center)
Extraordinary. Gilligan's recommendations concerning what does work to prevent violence...are extremely convincing...A wise and careful, enormously instructive book. (Owen Renik, M.D., editor Psychoanalytic Quarterly)
Important and absorbing...a valuable book deserving a widespread and thoughtful readership. (Norval Morris, Boston Globe, former Dean of University of Chicago Law School)
Dr. Gilligan offers a personal and passionate summing up of his decades of empathic clinical work with men who have committed horrible crimes, and he succeeds in deepening our understanding of their inner lives, the dark world of prisons they inhabit, and the violence that pervades... society. (Donald J. Cohen, M.D., Director, Yale Child Study Center)
Extraordinary. Gilligan's recommendations concerning what does work to prevent violence...are extremely convincing...A wise and careful, enormously instructive book. (Owen Renik, M.D., editor Psychoanalytic Quarterly)
Important and absorbing...a valuable book deserving a widespread and thoughtful readership. (Norval Morris, Boston Globe, former Dean of University of Chicago Law School)
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- PublisherJessica Kingsley
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1849850658
- ISBN 13 9781849850650
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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