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Violence : reflections on a national epidemic / James Gilligan.

By:

Gilligan, James [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1997Edition: First Vintage Books editionDescription: vi, 306 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0679779124
9780679779124

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

303.6 21

LOC classification:

HM281 .G45 1997
HM1116 .G45 1997

Summary: "Drawing on 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, Gilligan traces the role that shame plays in the etiology of murder and explains why our present penal system only exacerbates it. Brilliantly argued, harrowing in its portraits of the walking dead, Violence should be read by anyone concerned with this national epidemic and its widespread consequences."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"--Publisher description.

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Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	303.6 GIL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A138673B
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Originally published: New York : Putnam, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-294) and index.

"Drawing on 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, Gilligan traces the role that shame plays in the etiology of murder and explains why our present penal system only exacerbates it. Brilliantly argued, harrowing in its portraits of the walking dead, Violence should be read by anyone concerned with this national epidemic and its widespread consequences."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"--Publisher description.

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