Trauma, Truth and Reconciliation: Healing Damaged Relationships

ISBN-13: 9780198569428 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 316 str.

Potter, Nancy

Opis

People do great wrongs to each other all the time, sometimes deliberately, sometimes accidentally. This book examines the merits of forgiveness and reconciliation in the context of civic and interpersonal relationships. It also looks at how healing can occur when power imbalances exist, how to understand and address evil, genocide, and war.

Recenzje

This is a book about a singularly important topic: how do we repair relationships after a wrong, often a wrong so severe that it cannot be simply rectified? How, after either personal or communal abuse or trauma, do we avoid the vortex of recrimination and retaliation? It is a book that deserves to be read slowly and taken seriouslyan important book [that] should interest students and scholars of many disciplines. Most of all it should interest those concerned for the human condition.

O autorze

Nancy Nyquist Potter received her Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1994 from the University of Minnesota and she is currently an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Louisville. Her research interests range from virtue ethics to the role of humor in conflict to philosophy and mental illness. She is Vice-President of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, an Associate Editor for the journal Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, and serves on local hospital ethics committees and councils.