Violence : reflections on a national epidemic / James Gilligan.
"Drawing on his firsthand experience as a prison psychiatrist, his own family history, and literature, Gilligan unveils the motives of men who commit horrifying crimes, men who will not only kill others but destroy themselves rather than suffer a loss of self-respect. With devastating clarity,...
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New York :
Vintage Books,
1997.
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Table of Contents:
- Visits to hell: entering the world of the prison
- Dead souls
- Violent action as symbolic language: myth, ritual, and tragedy
- How to think about violence
- Shame: the emotions and morality of violence
- The symbolism of punishment
- How to increase the rate of violence
- and why
- The deadliest form of violence is poverty
- Culture, gender, and violence: "we are not women"
- Civilization and its malcontents.