“Why didn’t I say that?”, “I shouldn’t have phrased it like that”… You have most likely already ruminated and replayed in your head the scene of a verbal attack that you experienced. been a victim or witnessed.
Violence surprises and destabilizes so much that we rarely react as we would have liked.
It is in this sense that Isabelle Côté wishes to help.
A social worker in Canada for 35 years, she received death threats around twenty years ago which affected her physically and psychologically, to the point of being on sick leave for a year.
To understand the mechanisms of violence and heal, Isabelle Côté begins research, meeting perpetrators of violence in prison as well as prosecutors.
After producing a book aimed at social professionals, she published
The art of defusing everyday violence
(1), to inform the general public and help deal with everyday violence.
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