Mike
Doctor in Emergency Medicine in the NHS. Resuscitation. Married to a police officer. Rape and addiction survivor. Opinions all mine.
Book Recommendations:
“Am reading ‘Making Evil’ by the psychologist Julia Shaw. Psychology studies across the world show again and again that the majority of women have rape fantasies. I had to read that several times. Not an easy book to read but the science is interesting if dark. https://t.co/llsrMjdX4Z” (from X)
What is it about evil that we find so compelling? From our obsession with serial killers to violence in pop culture, we seem inescapably drawn to the stories of monstrous acts and the aberrant people who commit them. But evil, Dr. Julia Shaw argues, is all relative, rooted in our minds and our unique cultures. What one may consider normal, like sex before marriage, eating meat, or being a banker, others find abhorrent. And if evil is only in the eye of the beholder, can it be said to exist at all? In Evil, Shaw uses case studies and examples from academia and popular culture and anecdotes from everyday life to break down complex information and concepts like the neuroscience of evil, the psychology of bloodlust, and workplace misbehavior. This is a wide-ranging exploration into a fascinating, darkly compelling subject.