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
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Aren’t you making too big a deal of this?
At this blog, we generally keep our focus on domestic abuse, but other kinds of abuse have similar dynamics to domestic abuse. In this post, I'm giving links to an account of sexual harassment by a para-church Leader. It is a two-part testimony by a woman named Lizzie, describing Bill Gothard's sexual harassment of her… Continue reading Aren’t you making too big a deal of this?
