Common Shock

Witnessing Violence Every Day : how We are Harmed, how We Can Heal

Author: Kathy Weingarten
ISBN: 0525947426

A ground-breaking work from a renowned trauma expert reveals a problem that profoundly affects us all - and shows what we can do about it. Every single day, whether we realize it or not, we witness and are affected by violence - often with serious, long-term consequences. At times the violence is extraordinary, impossible to neglect: the terrorist attacks of 9/11 make us anxious - even panicky - unable to sleep. More often the violence is mundane: the customer ahead of us in the cafeteria line berates the cashier and we feel inexplicably edgy for hours. Most of the time we don't even notice: our 12-year-old watches a murder on television (one of the more than 100,000 acts of TV violence he has seen by that age) and zones out. In her revolutionary new book, Common Shock, Harvard Medical School psychologist Kaethe Weingarten, Ph.D., defines a problem that up until now had no name. Drawing on the latest scientific research and her years of clinical and community experience, Kaethe Wein

Publisher: Dutton
Publish Date: 2003

Subjects: Social Science / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Violence)