Batman and Psychology
A Dark and Stormy Knight
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Narrated by:
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Paul Bellantoni
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By:
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Travis Langley
About this listen
Batman is one of the most compelling and enduring characters to come from the Golden Age of Comics, and interest in his story has only increased through countless incarnations since his first appearance in Detective Comics #27 in 1939.
Why does this superhero without superpowers fascinate us? What does that fascination say about us?
Batman and Psychology explores these and other intriguing questions about the masked vigilante, including the following: Does Batman have PTSD? Why does he fight crime? Why as a vigilante? Why the mask, the bat, and the underage partner? Why are his most intimate relationships with bad girls he ought to lock up? And why won't he kill that homicidal green-haired clown?
This book, which is written by a psychology professor and Superherologist (a scholar of superheroes), gives fresh insight into the complex inner world of Batman and Bruce Wayne (and the other characters of Gotham City), using this popular comic-book character as a lens to help explain psychological theory and concepts.
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- Ben C.
- 12-05-22
brilliant look behind the bat
a well written and well read book covering all the years of batman and his allies and villans, showing how they do or don't have the physiological issues. The book is fun and keeps thing light, you don't need to have read the comics as any references are explained for that benefit.
Well worth the read and shall definitely listen again.
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- Neil
- 22-05-24
Interesting
What I found interesting about this book is that the author has built an entire psychological profile around the Batman character and franchise. A franchise which is a work of fiction. So the author has developed a serious piece of academic work on a subject that is fictional but which reads like it was a real person or subject. It messes with the head after a while. It's as if I should be able to date Cat Woman but wait, she's not real!!
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- Windy3s
- 07-08-22
Better than expected
You really get to feel what he thinks and the environment he lives in. We all human after all
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- Luke Ow
- 17-01-22
well worth every second
Shining the Bat Signal out to all Bat fans, give this a listen! To all curious in psychology, a great introduction to key concepts & frameworks used to explain human actions over the past decades. The narrator's assured style makes for a very conversational listen too
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- James Speirs
- 11-07-22
amazing
a great listen and very interesting and made me change how I look at superheroes
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- Emily
- 25-07-24
Hard To Read
2019 52 Book Challenge - 16) The Retelling Of A Well Known Story
This was such a tough book to read. I thought, being about Batman, it would be pretty interesting, but it looked at aspects of Batman in such minute detail and with so much medical jargon that it was so hard to read.
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- Alexander Smith
- 22-09-21
Not what I expected at all.
Not what I expected at all, tried to ignore the ham-fisted nature of the speech used all throughout but it ruined it for me. Felt almost like a sensitivity training manual at parts. Has some interesting parts and ideas but not worth the slog. 1/10 - So woke it gave me insomnia.
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