# James Gilligan

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Where Violence Comes From with Bob Cullen #179

Bob Cullen isn't a doctor or a traditional academic — he's a man who spent his early life around violence and addiction, spent years in prison, and has spent the time since trying to understand where that violence actually comes from. Now finishing a master's and preparing to start a PhD, he leads …

Ep 310 Peacewarts: Social Chemistry 101 – The Chemistry of Shame (Class 8)

Ep 310 Peacewarts: Social Chemistry 101 – The Chemistry of Shame (Class 8) Episode Summary: We examine the neurobiology of humiliation and its role as a primary accelerant for aggression. Using the clinical research of Dr. James Gilligan, the records of Abu Ghraib, and the manufactured national hum…

MAGA Cult Peaked in High School

James Gilligan spent 25 years running psychiatric care inside the Massachusetts prison system. He directed mental health services at Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane. He sat across from men who had committed acts so violent most clinicians refused to treat them. Men who killed o…

Why Trump Supporters Are Always Angry

There is something you notice if you spend any time around MAGA supporters. They are always angry. Not just politically frustrated. Not just disappointed. Genuinely, constantly, exhaustingly angry. And the anger never resolves. It does not matter how many elections they win, how many policies get p…

Conservative Culture Creates Weak Men

I want to talk about something that nobody in conservative media will ever say out loud. Conservative culture does not produce strong men. It produces broken ones. I know that is a provocative claim. But it is not an opinion. It is backed by decades of psychological research. And once you understan…

Trump Full Narcissistic Collapse

Why Trump is in the middle of a narcissistic collapse and nobody around him will say it out loud I have been studying authoritarian movements and the psychology behind them for years. And I have never been more certain of anything than I am of this. What we are watching right now is not politics. I…

Why Trump Supporters Are Always Angry

There is a version of this conversation where I tell you Trump supporters are just misinformed. That if we explained things better, showed them the right facts, had the right conversation, they would come around. That is not what the science says. What the science says is that Trump supporters are …

Why All MAGA Supporters Seem Like They All Peaked In High School

Why All MAGA Supporters Seem Like They Peaked In High School And Never Recovered There is a specific kind of person you recognize immediately. They are in their forties or fifties. They still talk about high school like it was the best time of their life. They are angrier than anyone you know. They…

Why Trump Attacks Hardest When He Is Losing

There is a pattern so consistent with Donald Trump that you can almost set a clock to it. A lawsuit goes against him. A court rules against him. A poll drops. An ally flips. Within hours, sometimes minutes, someone gets attacked. A judge. A prosecutor. A former friend. A reporter. It does not matte…

The Weight of the Person You Never Became

There is a particular kind of anger that has nothing to do with what is happening in front of you. It is not a reaction to a policy, a headline, or a specific event. It is older than that. It sits underneath everything else, coloring every interaction, turning every perceived slight into proof of a…