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Episode: Anna Motz - If Love Could Kill: The Myths & Truths of Women Who Commit Violence
Description: Comments or feedback? Send us a text! Female involvement with the criminal justice system can prompt significant internal dissonance as well as challenge conceptualizations around female violence, motherhood, mental illness etc. Forensic psychotherapist Anna Motz joins us for a fascinating discussion of her book “If Love Could Kill: The Myths & Truths of Women Who Commit Violence”. In this discussion we cover: why Anna wanted to write this book and the underlying message of the title (“If Love Could Kill”)why Anna has gravitated to the psychodynamic model for working with female offendersthe role that trauma play...