Who will sing with the perpetrator?
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Webster, Gerard. (2017). Who will sing with the perpetrator? Psychoanalytic Dialogues: a journal of relational perspectives. 27(2), pp. 164 - 171. https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2017.1282786
Authors | Webster, Gerard |
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Abstract | Child sexual abuse is a relational crime that affects not only the people in the child’s and perpetrator’s social network; the whole of society is affected. Child sexual abuse is at the same time extremely personal and pervasively social. Just as healing is required for individuals, so too does society need to tend to its wounds. Conceptualizing child sexual abuse as an emergent property of a limitless multitude of systems and subsystems implies that no one can be considered an innocent, objective observer of doer–done-to relating between victims, perpetrators, and guilty bystanders. We are participants in what we are observing. Our openness to connect with the experience of victims should not be at the expense of openness to listen to the experience of perpetrators and community leaders who must also be heard, in order to heal. |
Year | 2017 |
Journal | Psychoanalytic Dialogues: a journal of relational perspectives |
Journal citation | 27 (2), pp. 164 - 171 |
Publisher | Routledge |
ISSN | 1048-1885 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2017.1282786 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85017651397 |
Page range | 164 - 171 |
Research Group | School of Arts |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
Place of publication | United States of America |
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