VICTIMHOOD, VENGEFULNESS, AND THE CULTURE OF FORGIVENESS -- VICTIMHOOD, VENGEFULNESS, AND THE CULTURE OF FORGIVENESS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: PERSONAL MOTIVATIONS, HOW THIS BOOK CAME INTO BEING. -- PART ONE -- POST-TRAUMATIC VICTIMHOOD: BETWEEN RECOVERY AND FIXATION -- THE FOUR ASPECTS OF VICTIMHOOD -- Claiming a Victim's Identity -- Displacement of Aggression -- Transforming Personal Suffering into Influence, Power and Control -- Empathy -- Suspension of Concern -- SUMMARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- POST-TRAUMATIC VICTIMHOOD AND PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC CONSIDERATIONS -- THE WITNESS AND THE PERSECUTOR -- FORMING THE THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE -- SHIFTING EMPATHIC ATTUNEMENTS -- COUNTER-TRANSFERENCE -- A CASE STUDY -- GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- SOCIAL AND NATIONAL VICTIMHOOD: THE SOCIOPOLITICAL ASPECT -- CLAIMING A "SOCIAL VICTIMHOOD IDENTITY" -- VICTIMHOOD DISPLACEMENT OF AGGRESSION -- TURNING SUFFERING INTO OVERPOWERING -- SUSPENSION OF 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 -- 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 -- VENGEFULNESS: A DOUBLE-FACET ISSUE -- 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 DENIED FEELINGS -- THE DESIRE TO MAKE ONE SUFFER: CAN THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP CONTAIN -- CLINICAL EXAMPLE: TAMI -- DEEDS AND DOER: WHERE CAN THEY CONNECT? -- INCONCLUSIVE REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- "AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER:" VENGEFULNESS AS A LINK OF RECONNECTING -- VENGEFULNESS, REMEMBERING, KNOWING -- VALIDATION, REMEMBERING A MOVE TOWARDS MUTUAL CONCERN -- PARK GOSFORD: THE REVENGE OF DISCREDITED IDENTITIES -- SUSPENSE MOVIES ABOUT REVENGE: 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 -- CLINICAL VIGNETTE -- CLINICAL EXAMPLE: A SUPERVISION SESSION IN "AMCHA" -- THERAPY, A PROMISE THAT CANNOT BE FULFILLED: THE LIMITS OF REPARATION -- VENGEFULNESS, WHERE DOES IT HIDE: ON 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, DESPAIRAND MECHANISMS OF DEFENCE. RESULTS OF A RESEARCH.

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 -- 2. During the War -- 3. After the War -- Inability to Move beyond the Unforgiving Attitude -- REFERENCES -- MOURNING AND FORGIVENESS AS PARTS OF A HEALING PROCESS -- THE CONCEPT OF FORGIVENESS -- Clinical Vignette I -- FORGIVENESS AND THE ROLE OF MOURNING PROCESS -- Clinical Vignette II -- Clinical Vignette III -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- REFERENCES -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- INDEX.