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Trauma and Evil

Healing the Wounded Soul

Author: Mary Ann Nelson and J. Jeffrey Means, PH.D.  

Trauma and Evil
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This book enables caregivers working with victims of abuse and violence to add to their knowledge base an understanding of evil and how it works to destroy. Arguing that Rthe worst forms of trauma are the human intentional type", or trauma perpetrated consciously and intentionally by one human being on another, the authors define radical evil, symbolized by Satan, as trauma-inducing acts that are engaged in consciously, for its own sake, in an unapologetic way.

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This book enables caregivers working with victims of abuse and violence to add to their knowledge base an understanding of evil and how it works to destroy. Arguing that Rthe worst forms of trauma are the human intentional type", or trauma perpetrated consciously and intentionally by one human being on another, the authors define radical evil, symbolized by Satan, as trauma-inducing acts that are engaged in consciously, for its own sake, in an unapologetic way.

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This book helps those who provide care to victims of abuse and violence add to their knowledge base an understanding of evil. The authors "demythologize" evil and offer an integrated perspective that looks within persons, relationships, and culture to better identify the seeds of potential abuse and violence. The book encourages caregivers to take an actively prophetic role in addressing the seeds of abuse that lie within each one of us and our culture.

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The Rev. J. Jeffrey Means, Ph.D., is Director of Clinical Services and Professional Education at the Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center.Jeffrey Means in the NewsAuthor of Trauma and Evil Discusses Moral Aspects of ViolenceFrom the article "Not Judgment, Just Life: Religious Thinkers Taking a More Sympathetic Look at the Deep Wounds that Outlast Trauma," by Susan Hogan-Albach, in The Dallas Morning News (June 2, 2001):"... Trauma may produce symptoms that carry with them a mental health diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder or various disassociative disorders, said the Rev. J. Jeffrey Means, director of clinical services and professional education at the Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center in Iowa." 'The responses they're having are normal reactions to an abnormal situation,' he said. 'To label them ill is doing a disservice. It focuses our attention on the wrong point.' ..."Dr. Means, who has spent more than 20 years helping survivors of sexual abuse, said the word 'trauma' is too soft, and trauma theory doesn't go far enough in addressing the theological issues at stake. He prefers to talk about evil." 'We have to move more into the moral, ethical and spiritual dimension and use the term evil,' said Dr. Means, co-author of the book Trauma & Evil: Healing the Wounded Soul." 'Evil is a process that destroys the selves and souls of people,' he said. 'If we are going to turn around patterns of abuse and violence, we have to start dealing with what we do that hurts one another so badly. My hope is that putting the religious focus on the subject of evil will do that.' ..."Sister Mary Ann Nelson is the Provincial of the Western Province of the Sinsinawa Dominicans with extensive training and experience in the areas of pastoral counseling, psychotherapy, education, and spiritual formation.

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This book helps those who provide care to victims of abuse and violence add to their knowledge base an understanding of evil. The authors "demythologize" evil and offer an integrated perspective that looks within persons, relationships, and culture to better identify the seeds of potential abuse and violence. The book encourages caregivers to take an actively prophetic role in addressing the seeds of abuse that lie within each one of us and our culture.

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Publisher
Augsburg Fortress Publishers | Augsburg Fortress
Published
21st September 2000
Pages
256
ISBN
9780800632700

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