Batman and Psychology, Travis Langley
Batman and Psychology, Travis Langley
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Batman and Psychology
A Dark and Stormy Knight

Author: Travis Langley

Narrator: Paul Bellantoni

Unabridged: 10 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/06/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Psychology


Synopsis

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.

About Travis Langley

Travis Langley authored the acclaimed book Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight. He is the editor and lead writer for Sterling Publishing's Popular Culture Psychology series. He is a psychology professor who teaches on the psychology of crime, mental illness, social behavior, and media at Henderson State University.


Reviews

I just finished this one, on a recommendation by my best friend, who is far away right now. It's very well written, science communication, comic books, psychology. All rolled into one single file (as I have the Kindle version). It's very interesting, and engaging, trying to be low on technical terms,......more

Goodreads review by Kaylin

3.5 Stars ”We don’t scoff at the accumulated effects and logical impossibility of one man having thousands of adventures, as long as we can accept him as the man in the adventure he’s having right now.” This may be the geekiest thing I’ve ever read. Go ahead and judge me. In all honesty, Batman......more

Goodreads review by William

I just finished reading Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight and I know I'll read it again. It's that good. Greatly superior to Batman and Philosophy. This author really knows his stuff, for both the psychology and the Batman history, and explains it all well, clearly, smartly, sometime......more