A Sign for Cain: An Exploration of Human Violence

By Fredric Wertham

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446762229
• ISBN13: 9780446762229
• Release Date: March 1973
• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Length: 375 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

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Product Description In a complete study of human violence Dr. Fredric Wertham writes: "From my psychiatric and sociological studies I have arrived at a double thesis. On the one hand violence is becoming much more entrenched in our social life than people are willing o believe. On the other hand, it is in our power eventually to conquer and abolish it."

Two thumbs up for this book!

It is undeniable the violence invades over and over the social life of the mankind, much more than they want to believe. This book is a generous, wide and erudite analysis of the violence in all its aspects: Wertham is a very illustrated man and uses not only sociology and psychology studies but also criminality issues , history, art and literature. He understands the violence not only in its profound historic complexity, but besides he focuses on the quotidian simplicity: from the toys, in mass media and even in the political murderers, in the mutinies and the ineffable wars. All issues are different but somehow are correlated. He proposes to find its internal connections and carve in relief the latent violence under the mask that retain. There are so may unknown, interweaved and unthinkable points of view that you will find important material to discuss and reflect. Even the first edition dates from 1966, the book remains as a must reference for those who are really interested in that crucial theme.

Excellent chapter on psychiatry's role in Nazi genocide

The chapter "A Geranium in the Window" is one of the best available studies of the major role psychiatry played in the development and implementation of the genocide program of the Nazi's. For anyone interested in the real history of psychiatry and psychiatric research, this book would be very valuable.