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Character profiles of key people
in the film
“It took me years to discover the fiercely guarded secret of violent men; they do feel something; they feel ashamed, chronically ashamed, acutely ashamed – over matters that are so trivial that their very triviality makes it even more shameful,” says Dr. Gilligan, who sees violence as a public health problem that needs to be treated as a disease. He says he has come to understand that the common underlying cause of violence in shame and that violent behavior occurs when a man doesn’t see himself as having any nonviolent means to gain respect and find justice.
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MANHOOD AND VIOLENCE Production Staff Mike Gilligan – Producer, Writer, Editor, Co-Director
Chuck Clifton – Director of Photography, Cameraman
James F. Gilligan, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, The Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School – Consultant for Manhood and Violence: Fatal Peril Manhood and Violence is funded by: The Kendryx Foundation
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In the Manalive group, Barry brings his hands up in the gesture
that represents “Fatal Peril.” Fatal peril is that
moment of shock when each man feels fear and has to decide whether
he is going to deny his fear and become violent, or really feel
his fear and acknowledge his “true self.” This is the
beginning of reconstruction. “It’s a trade-school for
intimacy,” says Hamish Sinclair, the creator and designer
of the Manalive program. “Once a man has learned to stop
his violence, we then have the problem of what he’s going
to do instead of being violent,” Hamish says. “In the
program, we teach the men the business of self-identification because,
at this point, they still don’t know who they are. The reconstruction,
a six-part program, is the process of internalizing, of teaching
the men how to feel. It takes them from fantasy to reality.”
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Violence is primarily a man’s business and it is about upholding
male honor,” says Dr. James Gilligan, psychiatrist, Harvard
professor and author, who has studied violence for over thirty
years. Much of that time he has spent working with violent criminals,
and asking, “Why are men violent?” and “Can they
change?”
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