Resultat för "The Violence" i Psykologi och mental hälsa

What motivates people to buy guns? To carry them? To use them? In this urgent and necessary call for action, Janet Shibley Hyde combines incisive cultural analysis with cutting-edge psychological research to offer science-based strategies and practical solutions of reform for the problem of gun...

The groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a “classic for our generation” (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score) Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist...

With a 4-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughout Why do some innocent kids grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad biology partly to blame? For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence and establishing...

An essential tool for healers, therapists, activists, and survivors of trauma who are interested in a justice-centered approach to somatic transformation The Politics of Trauma offers somatics with a social analysis. This book is for therapists and social activists who understand that trauma...

A top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is and fail to recognize how resilient people really are “An important course-correction to what is now received wisdom about trauma and how to treat it.” ―Wall Street Journal After 9/11, mental health...

Told by a former high-level member of the Peoples Temple and Jonestown survivor, Seductive Poison is the "truly unforgettable" (Kirkus Review) story of how one woman was seduced by one of the most notorious cults in recent memory and how she found her way back to sanity. From Waco to Heaven's...

Considering nonviolence as an ethical problem within a political philosophy requires a critique of individualism as well as an understanding of the psychosocial dimensions of violence. Butler draws upon Foucault, Fanon, Freud, and Benjamin to consider how the interdiction against violence fails to include lives regarded as ungrievable. By considering how "racial phantasms" inform justifications of state and administrative violence, Butler tracks how violence is often attributed to those who are most severely exposed to its lethal effects. 

A groundbreaking exploration of how women survive—and carry—the lasting impact of sexual trauma from award-winning New York Times Magazine writer Jen Percy “Impossibly beuatiful...Girls Play Dead is a vital continuation of [the effort] 'to tell true stories of women’s lives,' in such...

Ten years after the school massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, school shootings are a new and alarming epidemic. While sociologists have attributed the trigger of violence to peer pressure, such as bullying and social isolation, prominent psychologist Peter Langman, argues here that psychological causes are responsible. Drawing on 20 years of clinical experience, Langman offers surprising reasons for why some teens become violent. Langman divides shooters into three categories, and he discusses the role of personality, trauma, and psychosis among school shooters.  

This book uses evolutionary psychology as a lens to explain religious violence and oppression. The author, a clinical psychologist, examines religious scriptures, rituals, and canon law, highlighting the many ways in which our evolutionary legacy has shaped the development of religion and continues to profoundly influence its expression.

Introducing us to eleven ordinary women who came to commit extreme acts, Anna Motz sheds light on women's capacity for violence. She takes the listener on a journey into psychotherapy, uncovering their motives and the fault lines in their psyche that led to their crimes. We meet Mary, who turned to arson after her son was taken into care, Maja, whose fantasy life led to her stalking an ex-boyfriend, and Dolores, whose terrible crime is unimaginable to most people.

Le chantage affectif est une technique de manipulation qui vise à contrôler vos actions en faisant appel à des émotions puissantes telles que la culpabilité, l'obligation et la peur. Cela peut sembler innocent, mais c'est en signal très alarmant. Si vous cédez ne serait-ce qu’une ou deux fois, les exigences du maître chanteur deviendront de plus en plus déplacées. Par exemple, il peut habilement vous isoler de votre cercle social ou vous obliger à renoncer à des choses qui vous apportent de la joie.

What does it really mean to be a man? In Man Alive, Thomas Page McBee attempts to answer that question by focusing on two of the men who most impacted his life - one, his otherwise ordinary father who abused him as a child, and the other, a mugger who almost killed him. Standing at the brink of the life-changing decision to transition from female to male, McBee seeks to understand these examples of flawed manhood and tells us how a brush with violence sent him on the quest to untangle a sinister past and freed him to become the man he was meant to be.

Storytelling, a tradition that built human civilization, may soon destroy it Humans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of stories, argues that there is a dark side to...

Pourquoi l’islam est-il si souvent associé à la violence dans l’imaginaire collectif ? Que disent réellement les textes religieux sur le fait de tuer ? Et pourquoi des êtres humains peuvent-ils transformer une croyance en justification morale pour la violence ? Dans ce podcast intense et...

This important book provides a much-needed exploration and examination of "honor" abuse, violence, and killings from a psychological perspective. Written by a leading authority on the subject, the book draws on a wide range of research and theory on victims and perpetrators to bridge the gap...

Rompez enfin le lien traumatique de l'emprise psychologique et reprenez le contrôle de votre santé mentale. Si vous avez l'impression d'être prisonnier d'une relation toxique alternant maltraitance et faux réconfort, cet accompagnement bienveillant vous offre une véritable bouée de...

Brisez les chaînes de la manipulation toxique et entamez votre guérison émotionnelle après une emprise psychologique. Si vous ressentez un épuisement profond et une confusion persistante face à une relation destructrice, cette écoute vous offre un espace réparateur. C'est le point de...

Libérez-vous de l'emprise narcissique et brisez le lien traumatique pour retrouver votre pleine sécurité psychologique. Que vous envisagiez une séparation complexe ou cherchiez à vous reconstruire après une relation toxique, cette écoute bienveillante valide vos ressentis. Comprenez enfin...

Entamez votre guérison émotionnelle et surmontez les traumatismes de l'enfance en affirmant vos propres limites. Destinée aux survivants en quête de repères, cette écoute sécurisante offre un espace intime pour comprendre vos réactions sans jugement. Avancez à votre rythme, en toute...