'gun - Blogs - Depth Psychology Alliance2024-03-28T19:36:13Zhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/%27gunGun Violence in America: Jungian and Depth Psychological Perspectives and Resourceshttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/gun-violence-in-america-jungian-and-depth-psychological-perspecti2014-06-06T01:30:00.000Z2014-06-06T01:30:00.000ZDepth Alliancehttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/DepthAlliance<div><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In light of the recent shootings at Isla Vista/UCSB [Update June 5: Now adding Seattle Pacific University] as well as the hundreds of other gun violence incidents across the country and the world, I wanted to share/re-share some depth psychological resources and discussion around the topic. But first, some statistics courtesy of <a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/16/16547690-just-the-facts-gun-violence-in-america?lite" target="_blank">NBC News</a><font size="2" face="Verdana"><img src="http://www.depthpsychologylist.com/Resources/Pictures/Screenshot%202014-06-02%2018.13.46.png" title="" alt="" width="300" height="400" border="0" align="right" /></font></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><font size="2" face="Verdana">Every year in the U.S., an average of more than 100,000 people are shot, according to <a href="http://www.bradycampaign.org/xshare/Facts/Gun_Death_and_Injury_Stat_Sheet_3-Year_Average_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank">The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence</a>.<br /> <br /></font></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><font size="2" face="Verdana">Every day in the U.S., an average of 289 people are shot. Eighty-six of them die: 30 are murdered, 53 kill themselves, two die accidentally, and one is shot in a police intervention, the <a href="http://infocenter.nbcuni.ge.com/ResearchTopic/IssuesControversies/GunViolenceFacts.html" target="_blank">Brady Campaign</a> reports.<br /> <br /></font></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><font size="2" face="Verdana">Between 2000 and 2010, a total of 335,609 people died from guns -- more than the population of St. Louis, Mo. (318,069), Pittsburgh (307,484), Cincinnati, Ohio (296,223), Newark, N.J. (277,540), and Orlando, Fla. (243,195) (sources: <a href="http://www.childrensdefense.org/child-research-data-publications/data/state-data-repository/protect-children-not-guns-key-facts-2013.pdf">CDF</a>, <a href="http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html">U.S. Census</a>; <a href="http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate10_us.html" target="_blank">CDC</a>)<br /> <br /></font></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><font size="2" face="Verdana">One person is killed by a firearm every 17 minutes, 87 people are killed during an average day, and 609 are killed every week. (source: CDC)</font></span></li>
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<div><span class="font-size-2"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Meanwhile, as many psychologists and com</font><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">mentators</span> alike are saying, the problem goes well beyond gun laws. Our cultural container and systems for treating mental health are simply not adequate to treat people with the deep-seated issues that often precede such violent acts.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Depth Psychologist/Educator Glen Slater, PhD touches into the depth psychological perspective, saying, </font></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><font face="Verdana" size="2">"Gun violence keeps the national psyche in a holding pattern, preventing it from a more conscious encounter with more soul-wrenching issues. The obsessive need for guns, the paranoid fear of having guns taken away, the lack of will to effectively legislate or litigate, and even the violence itself are bonded in a conspiracy of collective defense and denial against a deeper darkness and pathology. Cracking open the neurotic dynamics means going in search of mythic and archetypal roots." (In <a href="http://www.springjournalandbooks.com/cgi-bin/ecommerce/ac/agora.cgi" target="_blank">Spring Journal</a>, Vol 81).</font></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><font face="Verdana" size="2">As you'll note in many of the following resources... (<a href="http://www.depthpsychologylist.com/Depth-Psychology-Practitioners-Blog?mode=PostView&bmi=1558742" target="_blank">Click here to read full post on DepthList.com</a>)</font></span></div></div>