Blame society. Blame a bad upbringing. Blame the circumstances.
Blame the victim--she may even blame herself. But what about the
perpetrator? When the blame is all assigned, will anyone be left to
take responsibility?
This powerful book takes up the disturbing topic of
victimization and blame as a pathology of our time and its
consequences for personal responsibility. By probing the
psychological dynamics of victims and perpetrators of rape, sexual
abuse, and domestic violence, Sharon Lamb seeks to answer some
crucial questions: How do victims become victims and sometimes
perpetrators? How can we break the psychological circle of
perpetrators blaming others and victims blaming themselves? How do
victims and perpetrators view their actions and reactions? And how
does our social response to them facilitate patterns of excuse?
With clarity and compassion, Lamb examines the theories,
excuses, and psychotherapies that strip both victims of their power
and perpetrators of their agency--and thus deprive them of the
means to human dignity, healing, and reparation. She shows how the
current practice of painting victims as pure innocents may actually
help perpetrators of abuse to shirk responsibility for their
actions; they too can claim to be victims in their own right,
passive and will-less in their wrongdoing.
"The Trouble with Blame" clarifies the social cost (quickly
becoming so apparent) of letting perpetrators off too easily, and
points out the dangers of over-emphasizing victimization, two
problems which eclipse our dire need for accountability and
recovery.
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