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Aportes de J. W. Prescott para una propuesta de prevención de la violencia en México
Autor
García Hernández, Magdalena
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Resumen
This article summarizes the assessment of the origins of violence by
James W. Prescott and presents ideas for a proposal of violence prevention
in Mexico. Prescott’s neuropsychological and anthropological studies
find that the main causes of the exponential increase in violence
and violence against women are gender inequality and the lack of sensory
physical pleasure throughout life, but particularly during the stage
of infancy, due to the failure to establish an affective bond between the
mother and the infant. Prescott demonstrates that this bond is necessary
for optimal cerebral, emotional, social, and intellectual development,
and for the creation of non-violent societies.