Trauma and Evil: Healing the Wounded Soul

by J. Jeffrey Means

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800632702
• ISBN13: 9780800632700
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A Powerful Resource

This book is a powerful resource for understanding and healing human response to trauma and evil. What a wonderful compilation and consolidation of what is so difficult to distill into words, acknowledgement of what is so prevalent yet so invisible, and language that unveils essential universal truths that other language buries. This book will help bring understanding, hope, strength and healing to many people.