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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Pagan King “Wisdom”
In the somewhat controversial post Barbara and I wrote The Failure of Ministry – Character Flaws Unique to Women, a reader brought up the possibility that pastors are fearful of permitting divorce in the case of abuse because then "everyone might claim abuse just so they can divorce and get out of an unhappy marriage."… Continue reading Pagan King “Wisdom”
