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The Reith Lectures #1: Is violence normal?

The Reith Lectures #1: Is violence normal?

Update: 2025-01-09

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This month, IDEAS features the 2024 BBC's Reith Lectures by forensic psychiatrist Gwen Adshead. Her four lectures address pertinent questions she has faced in her career. To start, she asks if violence is a normal part of human life — whether we are all capable and tempted by violence — or whether it is an aberration in just some people. *The Reith Lectures originally aired on BBC Radio 4.

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The Reith Lectures #1: Is violence normal?

The Reith Lectures #1: Is violence normal?