Victim-blaming, Perpetrator Guilt: Moral Injury, Just World
Channel: Prof. Sam Vaknin
Date: 2023-05-29

To justify our cognitive bias (the belief in karma, or "just-world hypothesis"), we blame and shame victims: they deserve their suffering, they had it coming.

Psychology attempts to stand out from philosophy and religion as a rigorous, almost exact science. Hence the rejection of morality and value judgments in psychological theories and practices.

But narcissistic abuse shatters our belief in a just cosmos. In this sense, it is a moral calamity.

LITERATURE

Griffin, B.J., Purcell, N., Burkman, K., Litz, B.T., Bryan, C.J., Schmitz, M., Villierme, C., Walsh, J. and Maguen, S. (2019), Moral Injury: An Integrative Review. JOURNAL OF TRAUMATIC STRESS, 32: 350-362. 
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Shay, J. (2014). Moral injury. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 31(2), 182–191. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036090

Jinkerson, J. D. (2016). Defining and assessing moral injury: A syndrome perspective. Traumatology, 22(2), 122–130. https://doi.org/10.1037/trm0000069

Shay, Jonathan. "Moral Injury." Intertexts, vol. 16 no. 1, 2012, p. 57-66. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/itx.2012.0000.

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