Once more, Judith Herman's book, Trauma and Recovery [Affiliate link], provides us with wonderful insight into why so many church leaders minimize, trivialize, and dismiss abuse victims. Listen to Herman's summation here of what Sigmund Freud found in the early years of his research on "hysteria" (i.e., Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder): This empathic identification with his… Continue reading Abuse and Denial: More Reasons Why Pastors Don’t Stand With Abuse Victims — from Judith Herman
Author: Barbara Roberts
Author of "Not Under Bondage: Biblical Divorce for Abuse, Adultery and Desertion". cryingoutforjustice.blog.
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I Will Stand: A New Facebook Ministry to Raise Abuse Awareness
The following post1 introduces us to a new Facebook ministry called I Will Stand. We are glad to endorse it and our readers are encouraged to go on over and pay them a visit! The link is also at the end of their post. *** I Will Stand Statistics show that 1 in 4 women will… Continue reading I Will Stand: A New Facebook Ministry to Raise Abuse Awareness
