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Violence : Reflections on a National Epidemic

Violence : Reflections on a National Epidemic Paperback - 1997 - 1st Edition

by James Gilligan

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In this groundbreaking book, James Gilligan examines the epidemic foremost in the minds of most Americans--violence. As he tells the stories of the men he treated at a hospital for the criminally insane, Dr. Gilligan traces the devastating links between violence and shame. He shows how that deadly emotion drives people to destroy others and even themselves rather than suffer a loss of self-respect.

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1997. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Violence : Reflections on a National Epidemic
  • Author James Gilligan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York
  • Date 1997
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0679779124I3N00
  • ISBN 9780679779124 / 0679779124
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.01 x 5.21 x 0.67 in (20.35 x 13.23 x 1.70 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Violence, Violence - Prevention
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96036854
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.6

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VISITS TO THE MAXIMUM-SECURITY PRISON IN MASSACHUSSETTS ARE VISITS to hell.

From the jacket flap

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

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Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 05/05/1997, Page 0

About the author

James Gilligan, M.D., directed the Center for the Study of Violence at Harvard Medical School. He is the former medical director of the Bridgewater State Hospital for the Massachusetts prison system.