Trauma, Truth and Reconciliation: Healing Damaged Relationships

by Nancy Potter

Overview

People do great wrongs to each other all the time, sometimes deliberately, sometimes accidentally. This book looks at how people, communities, and nations can address great wrongs and how they can heal from them- taking into consideration how differences in cultures, histories, and group expectations affect the possibilities for healing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198569435
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/26/2006
Series:	International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	9.44(w) x 6.02(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

1. Psychotherapy and the truth and reconcilation commission: the dialectic of individual and collective healing, David H Brendel2. Spiral of growth: a social psychiatric perspective on conflict resolution, reconciliation and relationship development, Christa Kruger3. Reconciliation as compromise and the management of rage, Peter Zachar4. Political reconciliation, the rule of law and post-traumatic stress disorder, Colleen Murphy5. When philosophical assumptions matter, Allison Mitchell6. How much truth and how much reconciliation? Intrapsychic, interpersonal and social aspects of resolution, Deborah Spitz7. Forgiveness: Beyond virtue and the law; on the moral significance of the act of forgiveness in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Mary Rawlinson8. Elements of a phenomenology of evil and forgiveness, Gerrit Glas9. Forgiveness: a critical appraisal, Piet Verhagen10. Forgiveness therapy in gendered contexts: what happens to the truth?, Sharon Lamb11. Telling the truth about mental illness: the role of narrative, Christian Perring12. Healing relational trauma through relational means: aboriginal approaches, Lewis Mehl-Madrona