What Stand Your Ground Laws mean in America – How Race & Gender Affect Who Can Stand Their Ground – including women and people of color. An in depth look at armed citizenship from our nation’s founding until today.
August 28, 2021 – For those who have known betrayal and abuse, it is often a hard-fought battle within one’s own psyche – not to mention the court of public opinion. As standard practice in American culture, assault victims – predominantly women and children, are routinely disbelieved, ostracized, or both…
Guest: Judith Herman, MD, formerly a full-time Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, at Harvard Medical School; and co-founder former Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program in the Department of Psychiatry, at Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of several books, including the groundbreaking book, Trauma and Recovery, The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror.
Discussion on the insidiousness and pervasiveness of domestic abuse – and the mistreatment of victims by the very people and institutions that should be protecting them. How these institutions have functioned for generations with impunity, including the Catholic Church, Hollywood, government and even the private sector. She explores what it is like for victims who suffer repeated abuse as well as institutional bias – where victims are treated with contempt by society, by the judicial system and even their own families.
October 26, 2020 – In my recent interview with Dr. Roger Pitman, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and practitioner at Massachusetts General Hospital, we discussed many issues including PTSD – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder which has as its hallmark, debilitating memories, flashbacks, and intense emotions that traumatized women,…
January 31, 2019 – Today is the last day of “stalking awareness month.” Yet, each day we see more new incidents of violence against women–including the mental and emotional torture which is stalking. In fact, most of us know that stalking is often a precursor to physical violence against women.…
