Moral Injury and Beyond

Moral Injury and Beyond: Understanding Human Anguish and Healing Traumatic Wounds uniquely brings together a prominent collection of international contributors from the fields of psychiatry, psychology, philosophy, theology, military chaplaincy and acute crisis care to address the phenomenon of moral injury.

Renos K. Papadopoulos, PhD., is professor in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies and director of the Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees at the University of Essex, UK, and professor at the Antiochian House of Studies, USA. He is a practicing clinical psychologist, family psychotherapist and Jungian psychoanalyst as well as a trainer and supervisor.

Preface: Renos K Papadopoulos; Introduction: Renos K Papadopoulos; About the Contributors; Chapter 1: The Traumatising Discourse of Trauma and Moral Injury: Distress and Renewal by Renos K. Papadopoulos; Chapter 2: Moral Injury and Self-Empathy: Lessons from Sophocles's Ajax by Nancy Sherman; Chapter 3: Moral Conscience, Moral Injury and Rituals of Recovery by Rita Nakashima Brock; Chapter 4: The Role of Religious Faith in Severe Trauma by Harold G. Koenig; Chapter 5: Killing the Human Being Within: Irenaeus and Moral Injury by Fr John Behr; Chapter 6: Just War and Moral Injury: Un-telling a Lie and Envisioning a Path to Healing by Robert Emmet Meagher; Chapter 7: What is Moral about Moral Injury? A Virtue Approach by Aristotle Papanikolaou; Chapter 8: The Psychic Counterpoise to Violence Towards the Human Other by Romano Màdera; Chapter 9: Moral Injury and Forgiveness: A Theological and Psychoanalytic Approach by Vasileios Thermos; Chapter 10: From Therapy to Impact: Expanding the Role of Non-Psychiatric Moral Injury Theorists in Direct Veteran Care by D. William Alexander