Author, If Love Could Kill: The Myths and Truths of Women who Commit Violence, Psychotherapist, Clinical & Forensic Psychologist, Tweeting in Personal Capacity
More than 60 lawyers, politicians and academics have called on
@barstandards
to drop the disciplinary investigation and apologise to women’s rights barrister, Charlotte Proudman who challenged a judge for having “a boys’ club” attitude in a ruling on a domestic abuse case.
The
I stand on the shoulders of generations of women who came before us, including my great grandmother who was a working-class suffragette.
Being honoured with highly commended 'Woman of the Year'
@WDLAwards
is dedicated to the countless survivors of domestic abuse. My work is a
Delighted to receive legal professional of the year award 🙌🏻 for championing victims of domestic violence and FGM survivors in the family courts.
“We are here today to celebrate 15 women who represent vanguards in their field paving the way for women and girls to thrive”, said
@TheAnnaGat
Dear Anna, The only people you will lose are people who don't deserve you. Grief is like this, and you will go into states of mind and body like you have never known before-anyone who loves and cares for you will just be with you in this pain-weeping with and for you. With love.
@motz_anna
thank you so much a really informative and thought provoking presentation thinking about how we therapeutically work with women in forensic settings.
Such an insightful and complex book on how someone can be a victim and a perpetrator at the same time, without one fact necessarily cancelling out the other. My take away: we should do everything we can to break cycles of abuse early on. Huge admiration for
@motz_anna
Woody Harrelson surprised the chess club at HMP Wormwood Scrubs with a visit on Thursday.
A major chess enthusiast, he spent the afternoon with the prisoners and staff, playing matches and discussing tactics as part of
@schoolschess
Prisons' Programme.
'What a tour de force' Professor Sue Black
A leading forensic psychotherapist looks at the roots and motivations of female criminals through a series of deeply affecting real-life therapy sessions.
A LOVE THAT KILLS from
@motz_anna
is out today in paperback.
For those of us despairing of the use of Borderline Personality Disorder as an unhelpful diagnosis, with the potential to reduce and stigmatise human despair, in response to circumstance,
On a brighter note, this gorgeous photo reminds me of how lucky I was to wake up to this view daily in 1983-4 when I lived in 'The Garden Quad', having won a room lottery. It still looks as lovely.
It's National Gardening Day! Did you know that New College's Garden Quadrangle, which leads to our gardens, was constructed in the late 17th century? This would have been around 300 years after the College first opened!
“And the moment that you subject a prisoner to the clangs, bangs, crashes and jingles of the prison environment or the manner in which you enclose them into a cell where that air isn't moving, if you put them into a place where they have absolutely no nose lids or earlids, that
Always an honour to be invited to discuss how and why violent acts occur by Trisha Goddard
@TalkTV
, who has real interest in psychological motivations and mental health issues. Today we tried to understand murder, and its causes.
Such a pleasure to meet so many engaged and compassionate forensic psychiatrists in training! Could have spent the whole day in discussion with them. Thanks for the invitation.
Excellent talk from
@motz_anna
on working with women within our current prison and mental health structures. My favourite quote was “to deny female violence is to deny female agency”.
Important but deeply disturbing story of June Gibbons, who, with her sister Jennifer, suffered racial trauma and spent years in a high secure hospital, after setting fires. The sisters known as 'the silent twins' had much to say, but couldn't be heard.
"You can bang on the walls, you can scream and it won't make any difference... so you retreat into your own mental space," the 57 year old said.
Malkinson, on 17 years of imprisonment for a crime he didn't commit.
If only I could tell 21 year-old me who left uni following a suicide attempt after being raped - that I’d graduate with top grades, secure a conviction, campaign for change, AND be heading to parliament tomorrow to appear before the Criminal Justice Committee - she wasn’t broken.
In case anyone missed it yesterday, a piece on my book on
#sound
in
#prison
(and what this means for how we understand power, Order and time). Get in your libraries for new term!
For those of you wanting to explore ideas about subjects too taboo to be spoken aloud, and how the unconscious shapes art, violence and intimate relations, please come along
@interintellect
:
@AndyWPhilosophy
Thank you so much, Andy. That means so much, especially coming from you, with your firsthand experience of working within prisons, and how incarceration can impact on the whole family, not just the prisoner. You succinctly summarised my main message too.
Hi Boston friends: I will be speaking about my book, If Love Could Kill at Harvard Bookstore
@HarvardBooks
this Valentine's Day with Maggie Fishman, at 7 pm. Free, please come along.
Being able to spend time here in the Alps is what joy and freedom feels like- and privilege. It also makes me think about men and women in custody and how essential that they have access to outdoor spaces, and nature. Norway seems to do it right when designing prisons!
Have long been struck by how deep the association is between animal cruelty and abuse of humans. The psychological literature and clinical experience reveal this time and again. Hard to bear.
Was honoured to be asked to present two workshops on working with women by the wonderful Fiona Deacon. Greater Manchester Probation is doing some exceptional work!
Last session today with
@motz_anna
sharing her experience & knowledge of working with violence & trauma with
@gmps
and
@GMWSA_
practitioners. Thought provoking as always- thank you Dr Motz for the support.
Thanks so much to
@HarvardBooks
for hosting the conversation with Maggie Fishma about "If Love Could Kill" last night, and to the interested and engaged folk who attended and asked great questions. Such a fun event and wonderful venue! Great turn out of
@hunterchsalums
alum too!
Everyone has heard of “a murmuration of starlings,” but did you know that a group of crows is called “a murder” and a group of peacocks “an ostentation”? How groups of birds got their names, with magnificent vintage illustrations of the best of them:
Thanks Naomi, this is such an important issue, and one I write about as there is a really unhelpful myth that women are not sexual abusers without male coercion. This obscures essential truths and leaves victims in fear of being disbelieved if they disclose abuse.
Women only sexually abuse when made to do so by men, don't they?
It’s always brave when people speak out about sexual abuse. Typically, they have to overcome so much internalised shame to do so. And speaking out about abuse by women is seemingly even more difficult.
Sadly,
Save the date ! Weds 15th May 2pm Better late than never online launch for Gendered Justice a fabulous team of authors in a collection described by Professor Lorraine Gelsthorpe as ‘inspirational’ - link will follow
@Sinem_Bozkurt88
@NicolaAHarding
@BrisUniPress
@klparadine
Former prisons chief blasts ‘panicky’ response to overcrowding:
“If the government would do something rather more energetic to expedite the release of
#IPP
prisoners who are over tariff that would have a big impact on the prison population quite quickly,”
Today brought another unexpected consequence of writing
#BecomingBeauvoir
: a wonderful conversation about feminism and the future of humanism with an unexpected reader—the former president of Columbia
@IvanDuque
.
Poverty, racism, emotional and physical abuse, childhood trauma, repeated marginalisation and unseen pain are all some of the factors that can lead to women finding violence their only solution.
' Motz is uniquely positioned to cut through the sensationalism of the crimes (arson, Munchausen syndrome by proxy, murder) to the real people behind them. An empathetic and necessary corrective to the stereotypes peddled by so many sensational true crime shows.'
On a happy note. The picture on the left. I was a happy child living a safe life full of love with my dad. The events that followed would change my life forever. My dad died when I was 11yrs old and I was sent to live in a Childrens Home. I spent years suffering and dreaming of
For anyone in Boston:
Anna Motz at Harvard Book Store
presenting:
If Love Could Kill:
The Myths and Truths of Women
Who Commit Violence
in conversation with MAGGIE FISHMAN
Wednesday
February 14, 2024
7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
So enjoyed talking to Maggie Fishman and others at this
@Interintellect
Salon--tune in to hear how to help children express themselves in art, and how animations can help violent women...
This fabulous new book rekindles so many debates about prisons and cruelty. Making a Drama out of a Crisis: The Curious Case of the Stanford Prison Study via
@UofMPress
@TheAnnaGat
@philosophybites
@ptknitwear
Sure, and we can have a coffee and chat-perhaps in a Hungarian coffee shop? I can regale you with my grandmother's colourful curses in her native tongue...
Another day of snow. Schools shut and police warnings not to travel unless essential so it looks like a day of building snowmen and drinking hot chocolate
#Shetland
In just a few hours on the podcast... our interview with Cornel West, in which he describes how he has been inspired by everyone from Kierkegaard to Richard Rorty, and back again.
From reproductive metaphors to bodily reality to psychology and more, join
@sirihustvedt
in conversation with
@motz_anna
on the concept of umbilical phantoms and the birth of babies, ideas, and art on April 12!
It was a privilege for me to have Anna Motz
@motz_anna
on The Jimmy Malone Show today
@wtam1100
. Her book "If Love Could Kill" is an eye-opening literary work. If you missed the interview, you can listen here:
Don’t miss our exciting new collaboration with
@kewgardens
!
Six RCM students will write new compositions that celebrate Kew Gardens’ unique landscape, bringing together music and nature to create a multisensory experience for visitors.
Find out more:
Mental health patients discharged for presenting with the very symptoms that led to their admission. Also, not uncommon for those labelled “personality disordered”
Is this a means of staff avoiding moral injury? If the patient is discharged, staff don’t have to deal with their
Today I saw the Rothko exhibition in Paris and I am not ashamed to say that there were moments when I cried and others where I felt in the presence of a god that I do not believe in. It was beautiful.
We were delighted to receive this letter. How thoughtful to thank us for their birthday card. We ensure everyone who is waiting for a
#volunteer
receives, at least, one birthday card.
#PeopleInPrison
Very much looking forward to being back at the American Library in Paris next week for this conversation about women and feminism with Catharine MacKinnon!
Link ⬇️