Trauma and Evil: Healing the Wounded Soul

This book enables caregivers working with victims of abuse and violence to add to their knowledge base a new understanding of evil and how it works to destroy the selves and souls of persons. Acknowledging that the worst forms of trauma are perpetrated consciously and intentionally, the authors also explore the more subtle and unconsciously driven expressions of evil that leave scars on the lives and psyches of persons. By integrating the experiences of persons hurt by evil and those who seek to help them with a socio-cultural and theological understanding of evil, a psychological understanding of trauma, and the resource of the Christian faith, caregivers will acquire an understanding that will help them move more intentionally into the moral, ethical, and faith dimensions of working with victims of trauma.