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Information about Paul’s book “Heart of Violence”
Dear Child Survivors of the Holocaust, Since our last contact the world has become more precarious and the understanding of violence more urgent.
I hope my book will contribute to understanding and decreasing violence.
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Dr Paul Valent Founding President CSH Melbourne
Heart Of Violence Why
Paul Valent
Violence is our nemesis, the constant shadow over our lives. Its many tentacles range from domestic, criminal and sexual violence to gang, group and national violence, from murder to war and genocide, from terrorism to nuclear war. Recently our world has destabilised dramatically, and violence threatens on an unprecedented scale.
So far we have been hampered from dealing with violence by not having a discipline of violentology. Even traumatology, the study of victims of violence, is quite recent. Inexorably, Valent, psychiatrist, a leader in the field of traumatology took the leap from healing the minds of victims to trying to understand the minds of perpetrators.
Format: Paperback
Price: $44
ISBN: 978-1-925984-05-7
Pages: 346
Dr Paul Valent is a Holocaust survivor, doctor, psychiatrist, traumatologist, and writer. He cofounded and is past President of the Australasian Society for Traumatic Studies, and he founded and was long-term President of the Child Survivors of the Holocaust Melbourne. He has published numerous articles, book chapters, encyclopaedia entries, and books. Preventing hurt and violence has been his lifelong quest. www.paulvalent.com
Valent unpicks the minds of perpetrators in each field of violence. He develops a three-dimensional lens that illuminates violence, whether individual or international, instinctive or ideological. We come to understand how and why aggressions that helped our species to survive now threaten it with extinction.
Valent illustrates his thesis through stories. One story interwoven throughout is his own. A child who survived the Holocaust, he examines the minds of his own perpetrators in his quest to prevent future violence.
Finally, violence for Valent is not an isolated feature of the human condition. Surprisingly close to violence in the human heart is the struggle for love. Readers will also learn about love in this ground-breaking book.
