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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Psychology: Raising Stakes

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Psychology: Raising Stakes

Langley, Travis
Erickson, William Blake
Weatherford, Dawn R.

Paperback

General PsychologyGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $25.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 20, 2027

ISBN10: 1394447493
ISBN13: 9781394447497
Publisher: Wiley
Published: Jan 20 2027
Pages: 272
Language: English

What does it take to keep fighting?

Why does Buffy the Vampire Slayer repeatedly risk her life for a world that burdens, isolates, and sometimes rejects her? How do her friends become family--and what happens when love, grief, power, and betrayal pull them apart? Sunnydale turns the horrors of growing up into literal monsters, using vampires, demons, and apocalypses to explore struggles that remain recognizably human.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Psychology: Raising Stakes brings together psychologists and other experts to examine the Slayer, her friends, her foes, and the forces that shape them all. Drawing on psychological science, the landmark TV series, and more Buffyverse media, 22 chapters investigate identity, trauma, morality, memory, relationships, resilience, and the work of becoming who we choose to be.

  • How do trauma, grief, and repeated exposure to death affect Buffy, Willow, Xander, Giles, and the other Scoobies?
  • Why do some characters recover from suffering, while others pursue vengeance, surrender to despair, or discover post-traumatic growth?
  • What do memory, perception, personality, and moral judgment reveal about heroes, villains, vampires, and the choices between them?
  • How do friendship, love, family, sexuality, communication, and group dynamics help the Scoobies survive--or sometimes create new wounds?
  • Why has Buffy inspired generations, how can monster stories help real people, and what happens when fandom itself hurts?

Accessible to fans, students, educators, and anyone interested in human nature, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Psychology: Raising Stakes reveals truths beneath Sunnydale's supernatural battles. When growing up feels like the end of the world, psychology helps explain how people endure, connect, change, and keep fighting.

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