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  • By: Travis Langley
  • Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
  • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (36 ratings)
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By: Travis Langley
Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
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Summary

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.

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Not what I expected at all.

Not what I expected at all, tried to ignore the ham-fisted nature of the speech used all throughout but it ruined it for me. Felt almost like a sensitivity training manual at parts. Has some interesting parts and ideas but not worth the slog. 1/10 - So woke it gave me insomnia.

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Better than expected

You really get to feel what he thinks and the environment he lives in. We all human after all

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amazing

a great listen and very interesting and made me change how I look at superheroes

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brilliant look behind the bat

a well written and well read book covering all the years of batman and his allies and villans, showing how they do or don't have the physiological issues. The book is fun and keeps thing light, you don't need to have read the comics as any references are explained for that benefit.
Well worth the read and shall definitely listen again.

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well worth every second

Shining the Bat Signal out to all Bat fans, give this a listen! To all curious in psychology, a great introduction to key concepts & frameworks used to explain human actions over the past decades. The narrator's assured style makes for a very conversational listen too

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