Wonder Woman Psychology: Lassoing the Truth

For 75 years, Wonder Woman has served as an inspiration to people everywhere. Wonder Woman Psychology: Lassoing the Truth examines this powerful superheroamp;mdash;who was created by famous psychologist William Moulton Marstonamp;mdash;through 20 chapters, including some very special interviews and the previously unpublished memoir of Elizabeth Holloway Marston. This collection analyzes:

• Marston's important role in the history of forensic psychology.
• How Diana's relationship with her mother and Amazonian sisters shapes her to become a leader and the heroine called Wonder Woman.
• The ways differences in culture and gender can contribute to alienation but also to personal empowerment.
• What roles emotion, strengths, virtues, and culture shock play in heroic behavior.
• And what it truly means to be a wonder.