"James W. Prescott is a developmental neuropsychologist and cross-cultural psychologist. For fifteen years he conducted research on origins of violence for the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, NIH" until he was abruptly dismissed at the beginning of the Reagan administration in 1981 --halting the publication of a just completed major cross-cultural study of the origins of violence unpublished. Prescott felt devastated, and several years passed before he summoned the strenght to become a dedicated individual advocate of his research.

He's done a lot of incredible and gradually influential work over the years. If you're not familiar with any of it, here are a few links . . .

Touch the Future - ttfuture.org/services/vi...s/Jprescott/
interview:
- the origins of love & violence
essays:
- bonding & violence
- breastfeeding & brain development
- transforming the family

primary archive:
THE ORIGINS OF PEACE AND VIOLENCE - violence.de/

POLITICS - www.violence.de/politics.shtml
- articles and letter exchanges with prominent politicians such as Hillary, Biden and Gore

BODY PLEASURE AND THE ORIGINS OF VIOLENCE
A neuropsychologist contends that the greatest threat to world peace comes from those nations which have the most depriving environments for their children and which are most repressive of sexual affection and female sexuality.
- www.violence.de/prescott/b...rticle.html

TEN PRINCIPLES OF MOTHER-INFANT BONDING: FOUNDATIONS FOR HUMAN TRUST, HARMONY & PEACE - www.violence.de/prescott/l...nciples.pdf

Sixteen Principles For Personal, Family and Global Peace
- www.violence.de/prescott/l...nciples.pdf

CIRCUMCISION - www.montagunocircpetition.org