Background
James Gilligan was born on October 30, 1935, in the United States.
James Gilligan
1563 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
James Gilligan graduated from Harvard University in 1957.
10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, United States
James Gilligan graduated from Case Western Reserve University as a Doctor of Medicine in 1965.
James Gilligan with his wife.
1563 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
James Gilligan graduated from Harvard University in 1957.
10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, United States
James Gilligan graduated from Case Western Reserve University as a Doctor of Medicine in 1965.
(An eye-opening, revisionist analysis of the social and ps...)
An eye-opening, revisionist analysis of the social and psychological roots of violence argues that violence should be approached as a problem in public health and preventative medicine, rather than one of biological or moral origins, and that shame is the common denominator that links violent perpetrators.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399139796/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(Drawing on firsthand experience as a prison psychiatrist,...)
Drawing on firsthand experience as a prison psychiatrist, his own family history, and literature, Gilligan unveils the motives of men who commit horrifying crimes, men who will not only kill others but destroy themselves rather than suffer a loss of self-respect. With devastating clarity, Gilligan traces the role that shame plays in the etiology of murder and explains why our present penal system only exacerbates it. Brilliantly argued, harrowing in its portraits of the walking dead, Violence should be read by anyone concerned with this national epidemic and its widespread consequences. "Extraordinary. Gilligan's recommendations concerning what does work to prevent violence...are extremely convincing.
https://www.amazon.com/Violence-Reflections-National-James-Gilligan/dp/0679779124/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(In this controversial and compassionate book, the disting...)
In this controversial and compassionate book, the distinguished psychiatrist James Gilligan proposes a radically new way of thinking about violence and how to prevent it. Violence is most often addressed in moral and legal terms: "How evil is this action, and how much punishment does it deserve?" Unfortunately, this way of thinking, the basis for our legal and political institutions, does nothing to shed light on the causes of violence. Violent criminals have been Gilligan's teachers, and he has been their student. Prisons are microcosms of the societies in which they exist, and by examining them in detail, we can learn about society as a whole. Gilligan suggests treating violence as a public health problem. He advocates initiating radical social and economic change to attack the root causes of violence, focusing on those at increased risk of becoming violent, and dealing with those who are already violent as if they were in quarantine rather than in constraint for their punishment and for society's revenge. The twentieth century was steeped in violence. If we attempt to understand the violence of individuals, we may come to prevent the collective violence that threatens our future far more than all the individual crimes put together.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008GCAIFQ/?tag=2022091-20
2001
(Politicians and the political process, even in ostensibly...)
Politicians and the political process, even in ostensibly democratic countries, can be deadly. James Gilligan has discovered a devastating truth that has been "hiding in plain sight" for the past century - namely, that when America's conservative party, the Republicans, have gained the presidency, the country has repeatedly suffered from epidemics of violent death. Rates of both suicide and homicide have sky-rocketed. The reasons are all too obvious: rates of every form of social and economic distress, inequality and loss - unemployment, recessions, poverty, bankruptcy, homelessness also ballooned to epidemic proportions. When that has happened, those in the population who were most vulnerable have "snapped", with tragic consequences for everyone. These epidemics of lethal violence have then remained at epidemic levels until the more liberal party, the Democrats, regained the White House and dramatically reduced the amount of deadly violence by diminishing the magnitude of the economic distress that had been causing it. This pattern has been documented since 1900 when the US government first began compiling vital statistics on a yearly basis, and yet it has not been noticed by anyone until now except with regard to suicide in the UK and Australia, where a similar pattern has been described. This book is a path-breaking account of a phenomenon that has implications for every country that presumes to call itself democratic, civilized and humane, and for all those citizens, voters and political thinkers who would like to help their country move in that direction.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0745649823/?tag=2022091-20
2013
James Gilligan was born on October 30, 1935, in the United States.
Gilligan attended Harvard University and Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve University), where he studied medicine. He became Doctor of Medicine in 1965.
During his career, Gilligan has served as director for the Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane, director of mental health for the Massachusetts prison system and as President of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy. Gilligan was a lecturer at many colleges and universities, including Boston College, University of Ulm, Simons Rock College, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, College of the Holy Cross, University of Rhode Island, and Case Western Reserve University.
Gilligan now lectures at the Department of Psychiatry, New York University. Professor Gilligan is an Adjunct Professor at New York University Law and Collegiate Professor at New York University's College of Arts and Sciences.
Gilligan has been on the faculty at New York University since 2002. Previously, Dr. Gilligan was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School, where he worked from 1966 to 2000. In 1977 he became the Director of the Harvard Institute of Law and Psychiatry.
Dr. Gilligan was brought in as the Medical Director of the Massachusetts prison mental hospital in Bridgewater, Massachusetts because of the high suicide and murder rates within their prisons. When he left ten years later the rates of both had dropped to nearly zero.
(An eye-opening, revisionist analysis of the social and ps...)
1996(Drawing on firsthand experience as a prison psychiatrist,...)
1997(In this controversial and compassionate book, the disting...)
2001(Politicians and the political process, even in ostensibly...)
2013
James Gilligan is married to Carol Gilligan since 1964 and has three children.
Carol Gilligan is an American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist best known for her work on ethical community and ethical relationships, and certain subject-object problems in ethics.
