“All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.”
James Gilligan is a psychiatrist who spent years working with violent inmates and is the author of a series of books on our epidemic of violence.
Looking forward to checking some of these books out.
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[…] escapes me, though I wrote about him briefly here at one time (James Gilligan, here’s the link) spent a long time in a prison for violent criminals studying what made them violent criminals. […]