Victimhood, Vengefulness, and the Culture of Forgiveness.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Personal Motivations, or How This Book Came into Being -- About the Authors -- Part One -- Post-Traumatic Victimhood: -- Between Recovery and Fixation -- Identification with the Aggressor and -- Post-Traumatic Aggression -- A Personal Point of View -- The Four Interpersonal Aspects of Victimhood -- Claiming Recognition as a Victim -- Displacement of Aggression -- Transforming Personal Suffering into Control, -- Power and Domination -- Suspension of Concern -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Post-Traumatic Victimhood: Psychoanalytic Perspective -- Empathic Witnessing, Sameness and Otherness -- Shifting Empathic Attunements -- Transferences and Typical Enactments -- Eve -- Group Analysis -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Social and National Victimhood: -- The Sociopolitical Aspect -- Claiming A "Social and National Victimhood Identity" -- Victimhood Displacement of Aggression -- Turning Suffering into Over-Powering -- Exemption from Concern -- Victimhood Ideology and Victimhood Leadership -- The Dead Ancestors -- The Encounter between Victimhood Groups -- Victimhood Aspects within the -- Israeli-Palestinian Conflict -- Mutual Recognition and Compensation -- A Remark on Consultancy -- Some Personal Conclusive Comments -- Bibliography -- Part Two -- Vengefulness as a Discredited Emotion -- Vengefulness: "A Disposition to Return Evil for Evil" -- Vengefulness, Literature, Drama -- Cain And Abel: "Am I My Brother's Keeper? -- Vengefulness: A Two-Faceted Matter -- Psychoanalytic Attitudes towards Vengefulness: -- The Negative Stance -- Vengefulness: A Discredited Feeling -- Vengefulness: Relational Emotional Communication -- Vindictive Wishes: A Quest for Mutual Acknowledgment -- Mutual Recognition and Vengefulness: -- Neither an Overarching Formula nor a Panacea to all Relational Injuries.

Lack of Recognition: The Ultimate Injury -- Vengefulness: Therapeutic Aspects -- Clinical Vignette -- Guy: Growing into Accountability and Self-Agency -- Some Afterthoughts -- References -- Vengeful Wishes: What Are They About? The Communicative Function of Vengefulness -- Vengefulness: A Restorative/Communicative Process -- Avoidance of Vengefulness -- Vengefulness as an Activation of Personal Resources -- Vengefulness: Clinical Considerations -- Winnicott's Contribution: -- Ruthlessness, Concern, Vengefulness -- Revenge And Survival: The Danger of Discredited Feelings -- The Desire to Make One Suffer: Can the Therapeutic Relationship Contain it? -- Clinical Example: Tammy -- Deeds and Doers: Is There a Link That Can Reconnect and Contain Them? -- Inconclusive Remarks -- References -- "Am I My Brother's Keeper?" -- Vengefulness as a Link -- Towards Reconnecting -- Vengefulness, Remembering, Knowing -- Vengeance: Society's Moral Memory -- Gosford Park: The Revenge of Discredited Selves -- Revenge Cinema: Scenes of Comic Relief -- Vengefulness: The Hope That "Help is on its Way" -- Remembering As Vengeance -- Vengefulness: An Act of "Telling it" to the Whole World -- Vengefulness: Therapeutic Considerations -- Amcha: A Clinical Vignette -- Clinical Example: A Supervision Session at Amcha -- Therapy, A Promise That Cannot be Fulfilled: -- The Limits of Reparation -- Where Does Vengefulness Hide? Decoding "Signals" of Vengefulness in the Therapeutic Relationship -- Cain And Abel: "I am My Brother's Keeper" -- End Notes: Vengeful Wishes are Not Vengeful Acts -- References -- Part Three -- To Live with Enemies and the "Impossible" Task to Think on Forgiveness* -- Disfigured Picture -- 1. Introduction: Enemies, Conflicts and Armed Clashes -- 2. Reactions of People in War Situations: -- Some Croatian Experiences.

3. On Stress-Related Disorders and the PTSD -- 4. Refugees and Displaced Persons: Reality, Despair and Mechanisms of Defence. Results of a Research -- Defense Mechanisms of Adults Mobilized by War Trauma and Displacement -- 5. Group Therapy as a Method of Choice -- 6. The Therapeutic Mirroring of Traumatic Hatred -- Clinical Vignettes -- 1. In the Beginning of Warfare: The Shock of War -- The First Soldier Asks for Psychiatric Consultation -- Mirroring of War Experiences in Group Setting: The Dream of a Female Soldier -- Working With Refugees and Displaced Persons in a Group -- The Case of an Ex-P.O.W. -- 2. During The War -- The Escape from Bosnian Hell -- 3. After the War -- The Dream: Enemy Soldiers are Running After Him -- Female Soldier Walking with Her Mother -- Aftermath of the War: Interethnic and Interconfessional Strifes and Identity Issues -- Dramatic Confrontation and Transgenerational Transmission of Recollections and Emotions -- Inability to Move beyond the Unforgiving Attitude -- References -- Mourning and Forgiveness as Parts of a Healing Process -- Like Once -- The Concept of Forgiveness -- Clinical Vignette I -- Father and His Sons -- Forgiveness and the Role of Mourning Process -- Clinical Vignette II -- Clinical Vignette III -- Session 1 -- Session 2 -- Session 3 -- Clinical Vignette IV -- The Healing Potential of Forgiveness and Compassion -- On Some Countertransferential Issues Treating PTSD -- On Compassion, Empathy, and Spirituality During Psychotherapeutic Process and in Social Tissue -- Clinical Vignette V -- Session 10 -- Session 11 -- Session 12 -- Session 15 -- Session 39 -- Clinical Vignette VI -- Forgiveness as Part of the Healing Process: -- Mourning Revisited -- References -- On the Culture of Forgiveness as -- Essential for Reconciliation -- On Reconciliation -- Clinical Vignette I.

Some Experiences from Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Creating the Space for Forgiveness -- The Magic Eyes. A Little Fable -- The Story of a Disobedient Son -- On the Way of Reconciliation: Forgiveness and -- Mourning Processes Revisited -- Reconciliation with Oneself and the Present: -- The Re-Emerging of Hope -- The Alternative Way: The Culture of Forgiveness -- Clinical Vignette II -- The Exhibition of Snakes -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

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