Heart of Violence: Why People Harm Each Other
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Heart of Violence: Why People Harm Each Other

Heart of Violence: Why People Harm Each Other

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Paul Valent (Author)  

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Violence is the plague of our civilization. It threatens us daily through its many tentacles: domestic violence, criminal violence, sexual abuse, terrorism, state violence, revolution, war, and genocide. The recently evolved discipline of traumatology has amply described commonalities in the consequences of violence. But there was no corresponding discipline of violentology, which explained why violence occurred in the first place. Inexorably, Valent was drawn to take the leap from healing the minds of victims to try to understand the minds of perpetrators. Valent unpicks the minds of perpetrators in each field of violence. He develops a lens by which to understand violence from individual to international, and from primitive to spiritual dimensions. We come to understand how aggressions that helped our species to survive now threaten our species with extinction. Such understanding may help to eliminate our current plague, just as understanding helped to eliminate the original one. Valent explains his thesis through many stories accessible to both professionals and lay readers. One story interweaving throughout is Valent's own story. From a child who survived the Holocaust, he ferrets out the minds of his perpetrators in his quest to prevent future violence. Violence, for Valent, is not an isolated feature of the human condition. Surprisingly close to violence are struggles for love. Readers also learn about that aspect of humanity.
Paul Valent is an internationally renowned traumatologist with a background in medicine, psychiatry, and psychotherapy. Among his publications are numerous papers and several books. His first book was Child Survivors of the Holocaust: Adults Living with Childhood Trauma. His From Survival to Fulfilment: A Framework for the Life-Trauma Dialectic and Trauma and Fulfilment Therapy: A Wholist Framework are pioneering texts in traumatology. In Two Minds: Tales of a Psychotherapist and his latest book, Heart of Violence: Why People Harm Each Other, are suitable for both professionals and the general public.
  • Contributor: Paul Valent
  • Imprint: Australian Scholarly Publishing
  • ISBN13: 9781925984057
  • Number of Pages: 344
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
  • Release Date: 2020-01-31
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Paul Valent is an internationally renowned traumatologist with a background in medicine, psychiatry, and psychotherapy. Among his publications are numerous papers and several books. His first book was Child Survivors of the Holocaust: Adults Living with Childhood Trauma. His From Survival to Fulfilment: A Framework for the Life-Trauma Dialectic and Trauma and Fulfilment Therapy: A Wholist Framework are pioneering texts in traumatology. In Two Minds: Tales of a Psychotherapist and his latest book, Heart of Violence: Why People Harm Each Other, are suitable for both professionals and the general public.

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