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. Numerous people, both in the real world and within the fiction, helped Bruce Wayne become a masked man fighting crime with his gadgets and fists while motivated less by. All events are free and open to the public. Why does this superhero without superpowers fascinate us? What does that fascination say about us?īatman 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? Travis Langley, the acclaimed author of the book Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight, will take part in several talks at Illinois State University and the Normal Theater on September 14 and 15. 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.
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