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For a lecture I was to give in Europe in June (now postponed until next year for obvious reasons), I was asked to focus on the role of traum...

Westminster/John Knox Press recently sent me the second edition of Serene Jones' book Trauma and Grace: Theology in a Ruptured World   (...

At Catholic World Report you can read my latest thoughts about several new books I had a chance to read over the Christmas break, some of w...

I recently mentioned how much I have learned and continue to learn from Robert Jay Lifton. This short note is a supplement to that, drawing...

Robert Jay Lifton is one of those outstanding figures who has managed across the many decades of his richly productive and insightful career...

This is a new international collection of scholarly articles that is rich on promise and offers encouraging evidence of theology moving into...

Who among us has not instantly and constantly recognized oneself in the famous Pauline "I-not-I" passage at the end of Romans 7? H...

I have spent no little time on here over the past four years exploring questions of memory and forgetting and their possible uses and abuses...

I've previously mentioned the impending release of Gerald Arbuckle's book Abuse and Cover-up: Refounding the Catholic Church in Trau...

As someone who has recently written a book  about the Catholic sex abuse crisis, and the necessary structural reforms to move past it, and a...

I am of course deeply interested in the problems of historical memory, especially among the Christians of Eastern Europe, and have often dis...

I have for many years been fascinated with, and written numerous articles about, the questions of remembering and forgetting among Christian...

I've been doing a lot of reading over the past three years in the study of trauma widely understood. Part of this has been motivated by ...

To my mind one of the most important and far-reaching insights Freud first helped us to understand, and many analysts --as well as other ps...