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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Abuse and Politics: How Christians Have Created an Abuser-Friendly Social Context — From Judith Herman
Ok, everyone needs to stop what they are doing and order a copy of this book that I keep quoting from. Judith Herman's Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror [Affiliate link]. This lady knows what she is talking about. So listen to her again: It is not only the… Continue reading Abuse and Politics: How Christians Have Created an Abuser-Friendly Social Context — From Judith Herman
