Andra Medea

Andra Medea is an American writer and a project developer and theorist on issues of conflict and violence, specifically crisis prevention. She first came to prominence in 1974 when, with writer Kathleen Thompson, she wrote Against Rape, the book that broke the silence on rape internationally. She later founded Chimera, Inc., which for more than twenty years taught self-defense classes for women based on Medea's early theories of conflict. In the early 2000s, she developed Medea's Conflict Continuum, which she built upon in two books, "Conflict Unraveled" and "Going Home Without Going Crazy" and a number of courses, both online and on video, for veterans, lawyers, judges, psychiatric staff and others. Her video "Working with Emotional Clients: The Virtual Tranquilizer for Lawyers" has been a best-selling continuing education program for the ABA. More recently, she developed this work on the continuum even further in "Safe Within These Walls: De-escalating School Situations Before They Become Crises".