‘Violence’ at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life, Page 3

A new initiative in the UK involves women who have been raped supporting others recovering from the same experiences of violation, anger, grief, shame and being effectively shut up by society as a whole. Why do these relationships work so well, and what can therapists learn from them?

“Everything happens for a reason”, they say, and “their” opinion has become pretty mainstream. This supposedly positive thinking is an undeniable part of how we human beings are; we’ve been making myths and stories and religions out of reality for as long as we have been human. I nonetheless want to scream “oh no it doesn’t!”

Do you enjoy blasting aliens, or chopping up the undead? A study in a US psychology journal claims to show, for the first time, that playing violent video games can desensitize us to violence in real life, numbing the physiological responses associated with exposure to real violence.