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Willard Gaylin (b. 1925)

What's So Special about Being Human?

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Angry all the Time
http://www.culturefront.org/culturefront/magazine/96/fall/article.3.1.html
This page is from a recent issue of culturefront online, "the official web site of the New York Council for the Humanities," and features an article by Gaylin about anger and violence in American cities.

BIOGRAPHY
Willard Gaylin (b. 1925)  Gaylin was educated at Harvard University (A.B., 1947), Western Reserve (now Case Western Reserve) University (M.D., 1951), and Columbia University, where, after earning a certificate in psychoanalytic medicine, he served as a faculty member (1956). A practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, he is also cofounder and president of the Hastings Center, which researches ethical issues in the life sciences. Among his publications are In the Service of Their Country: War Resisters in Prison (1970), Feelings: Our Vital Signs (1979), The Killing of Bonnie Garland: A Question of Justice (1982), The Rage Within: Anger in Modern Life (1984), Adam and Eve and Pinocchio: On Being and Becoming Human (1990), The Male Ego (1992), and The Perversion of Autonomy: The Proper Uses of Coercion and Constraints in a Liberal Society (1996).
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