[PDF] Violence Without Guilt eBook

Author : H. Herlinghaus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 31,37 MB
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 023061793X

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This is an illuminating discussion of guilt, fear, violence and aesthetics from a global perspective. Herlinghaus evaluates new Latin American novels, films and music through the lens of some of Walter Benjamin's controversial writings on violence and religion.

Author : Liv Larsson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 12,50 MB
Release : 2012-08-23
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9197944289

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This book can help you make shame, guilt and anger your allies instead of our enemies. They can become keys to your inner life and to your dreams. Getting to know these feelings will help you better meet your needs for respect, acceptance, belonging and freedom. What would be possible if you no longer needed to shrink yourself to avoid shame or guilt?

Author : John Weston Parry
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1442224053

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When horrific acts of violence take place, events such as massacres in Boston, Newtown, CT, and Aurora, CO, people want answers. Who would commit such a thoughtless act of violence? What in their backgrounds could make them so inhumane, cruel, and evil? Often, people assume immediately that the perpetrator must have a mental disorder, and in some cases that does prove to be the case. But the assumption that most people with mental disorders are violent, prone to act out, and a threat to others and themselves, is clearly erroneous. Mental Disability, Violence, and Future Dangerousness thoroughly documents and explains how and why persons with mental disabilities who are perceived to be a future danger to others, the community, or themselves have become the most stigmatized, abused, and mistreated group in America, and what should be done to correct the resulting injustices. Each year state and federal governments incarcerate, deny treatment to, and otherwise deprive hundreds of thousands of Americans with mental disabilities of their fundamental rights, liberties, and freedoms— including on occasion their lives—based on unreliable and misleading predictions that they are likely to be dangerous in the future. Yet, due to an exaggerated fear of violence in our society, almost no one seems concerned about these injustices, which exclusively affect Americans who have been impaired by mental disorders and the lack of treatment, especially after they have been abused as children or injured in combat. Instead, we appear to be oblivious to these injustices or comfortable in allowing them to become worse. Here, John Weston Parry carefully delineates the mishandling of persons with mental disabilities by the criminal and civil justice systems, and illustrates the ways in which we can identify and remedy those injustices.

Author : Peter Roger Breggin
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1616141492

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With the first unified theory of guilt, shame, and anxiety, this pioneering psychiatrist and critic of psychiatric diagnoses and drugs examines the causes and effects of psychological and emotional suffering from the perspective of biological evolution, child development, and mature adult decision-making. Drawing on evolution, neuroscience, and decades of clinical experience, Dr. Breggin analyzes what he calls our negative legacy emotions-the painful emotional heritage that encumbers all human beings. The author marshals evidence that we evolved as the most violent and yet most empathic creatures on Earth. Evolution dealt with this species-threatening conflict between our violence and our close-knit social life by building guilt, shame, and anxiety into our genes. These inhibiting emotions were needed prehistorically to control our self-assertiveness and aggression within intimate family and clan relationships. Dr. Breggin shows how guilt, shame, and anxiety eventually became self-defeating and demoralizing legacies from our primitive past, which no longer play any useful or positive role in mature adult life. He then guides the reader through the Three Steps to Emotional Freedom, starting with how to identify negative legacy emotions and then how to reject their control over us. Finally, he describes how to triumph over and transcend guilt, shame, and anxiety on the way to greater emotional freedom and a more rational, loving, and productive life.

Author : James Gilligan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 39,20 MB
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1108987915

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Shakespeare has been dubbed the greatest psychologist of all time. This book seeks to prove that statement by comparing the playwright's fictional characters with real-life examples of violent individuals, from criminals to political actors. For Gilligan and Richards, the propensity to kill others, even (or especially) when it results in the killer's own death, is the most serious threat to the continued survival of humanity. In this volume, the authors show how humiliated men, with their desire for retribution and revenge, apocryphal violence and political religions, justify and commit violence, and how love and restorative justice can prevent violence. Although our destructive power is far greater than anything that existed in his day, Shakespeare has much to teach us about the psychological and cultural roots of all violence. In this book the authors tell what Shakespeare shows, through the stories of his characters: what causes violence and what prevents it.

Author : Phoenix Mari
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,22 MB
Release : 2021-01-22
Category :
ISBN :

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This book is about a decade of sexual abuse from my" father" and a look farther into why victims do not or take so long to come forward, there are a lot of factors and manipulation and threats along with every emotion you can think of. At the age of five and having no memories of anything but abuse I can say now that knowledge is key in these situations and this culture we have of keeping sexual abuse quite only protects the guilty while the innocent suffer . How do we help children who know no different that this behavior is wrong and criminal, The more awareness we bring to the issue the more children will be helped. The only information I had I got from my parents, and when your parents are the abusers how would you question them? For as long as I can remember I had always felt like I was a small person living inside of the shell of the person that was supposed to be me, like I was looking through my eyes and watching what I was doing but I was not there, the thoughts and felling that I could hear and say out loud never seemed to reach to the mouth of the shell that was supposed to speak for me, she was me and I was her, but she was silent when I would scream, she said nothing when I said stop, she was quite when I wanted her to yell, she was weak and I watched in confusion at what I was seeing. My perception of these events and memories have drastically change over the years. I have no memories before the abuse therefore I had nothing to compare. How was I to know that wasn't normal when it's all I ever knew. Your parents teach you what to say, how to act, what is right and wrong, what to feel or not to feel and how to get along. What was once a loving hug from my father is now a realization of evil intent to manipulate a young child's feelings of security and safety. A fun-loving free-spirited mother who loved me, is now a chilling gut wrenching, selfish, sorry excuse for a mother, the sense I once had of a close family unit and support system are now nothing but distant memories of building treehouses, dirt clod wars and choreographed dance performances in my living room, all along suffocating inside. I will never forget, the anger, rage and frustration that was constantly felt, was only ever calmed temporarily by my sacrifice in silence, under a blanket full of guilt. This was my life for 10 years and finally when I thought it was all over and I tried to pick up the pieces and form a life for myself, I was meet with a different kind of abuse from my mother, the woman I had tried to protect and the woman that I loved betrayed me in the most evil of ways over and over again, I never in my life though any pain could be worse than the torture I received from my father, but I was sadly mistaken.

Author : Kanchana N. Ruwanpura
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 10,30 MB
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108832016

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Explores how labour struggles in the post-1977 period in Sri Lanka provided important resistance to capitalist processes.

Author : Katharina von Kellenbach
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 2021-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0197557430

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"The book investigates the role of guilt in the global discussion over locally specific legacies of mass violence and injustice. Guilt is an indispensable element in human social and emotional life that surfaces as a central phenomenon in the cultural politics of memory, transitional justice, and the aftermath of violence. The nuances and complexities of various national and historical guilt configurations fosters insight into guilt's transformative possibilities. The book interweaves specific case studies with broader theoretical reflections on the conditions that turn the emotional, legal, and cultural phenomenon of guilt into a culturally transformative dynamic that repairs relationships, equalizes power dynamics, demands new social orders, and creates literary, artistic, and religious productions and performances. The authors examine different case studies on the basis of discipline-specific definitions of guilt, ranging from psychology to law, philosophy to literature, religion, history and anthropology. The contributors generally approach guilt less as a personal emotion than as a socio-legal, moral and culturally ambivalent force that mandates ritual performance, political negotiation, legal adjudication, artistic and literary representation, as well as intergenerational transmission. The book calls for a more nuanced understanding of the world's-and of history's-diversity of guilt concepts and the cultivation of cultural strategies to negotiate guilt relations in specific religious, cultural, and local ways"--