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Psychology Of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo: Understanding Lisbeth Salander And Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy (2014)

by Robin S. Rosenberg(Favorite Author)

3.83 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1281794414 (ISBN13: 9781281794413)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Smart Pop

review 1: So far I have read the trilogy, a biography of Larsson, and now this anthology so I can say that this series and the characters are pretty intriguing to me. All the essays in this anthology are written by psychologists and psychiatrists are definitely biased towards Lisbeth given her victim status. This collection of essays covered a lot of ground that I learned in my undergraduate psychology studies but made the material much more engaging through case study analysis of a compelling character like Lisbeth Salander. These specialists all concur that Larsson did indeed create a plausible character in Salander and that she behaved exactly as a person with her history and temperament would in real life. While reading these essays were certainly more interesting than my psy... morechology textbooks, the material did get repetitive and somewhat dry. The two essays I found to be the most interesting explored the goth and hacker counter-cultures. The worst essay was the forensic report. The author kept saying "would have," as in, "Lisbeth Salander's juvenile arrest record would have indicated..." Yes we get that this is fiction, but we are acting as if Lisbeth is a real person and a forensic report is supposed to be based on facts so this undermined the reports credibility in my mind. She concluded, in line with the other experts, that Lisbeth did not have a psychological disorder and was not at risk for future violence. I would recommended picking and choosing the essays that really spark your interest and leave out all the rest.
review 2: One of the big reasons I enjoyed The Psychology of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is because the writing is engaging, which is not always the case when reading psychology texts. The contributing writers do not dumb anything down, but instead present the information in layman’s terms. Please remember these essays contain the views of the author(s) and may not always reflect your own views or opinions after reading Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy. I enjoyed the book and I felt it gave some additional insights into one of my favorite female characters in literature. less

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