James Gilligan

Carol and James Gilligan

James Gilligan is an American psychiatrist and author , husband of Carol Gilligan and best known for his book series Violence , in which he recorded 25 years of research into the motivations and causes of violence in American prisons.

Live and act

In his professional career, he has served as director of Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane, director of the Massachusetts prison mental health agency, and president of the International Association of Forensic Psychotherapists. He currently teaches in the Department of Psychiatry at New York University . Professor Gilligan is an Associate Professor at NYU Law and Collegiate and Professor at NYU College of Arts and Sciences . He was on the faculty at NYU until 2002.

Previously, Gilligan was a college professor 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 .

Gilligan was appointed medical director of the Massachusetts prison mental hospital in Bridgewater because of the high suicide and homicide rate. After ten years in office, both rates had dropped to almost zero.

Works

• Violence - Our Deadly Epidemic and Its Causes - 1996 ISBN 978-0-399-13979-6
• Violence - Reflections on a National Epidemic - 1997 ISBN 978-0-679-77912-4
• Violence - Reflections on Our Deadliest Epidemic - 1999 ISBN 978-1-85302-842-7
• Violence - Reflections on a Western Epidemic - 2000 ISBN 978-1-85302-842-7
• Violence in California Prisons: A Proposal for Research into Patterns and Cures - 2000 ISBN 978-0-7567-0680-7
• Preventing Violence - 2001 ISBN 978-0-500-28278-6
• Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous to Your Health Than Others - 2011 ISBN 978-0-7456-4981-8

literature

• Interview with James Gilligan in OV, MD (Psychotherapy.net) [4]

Individual evidence

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