The Intersection of Biblical Lament and Psychotherapy in the Healing of Trauma Memories

Dickie, June F.

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“…Herman's many clinical examples show most people heal through re‐telling and re‐integrating fragments into a whole that involves less intractable pain, shame, blame and resentment (Herman, 2007; Herman, 2023). June Dickie notes that psalms and poetry parallel trauma memory and provide a bridge to narrative for trauma survivors in her lament workshops (2019). Christopher Frechette offers a biblical story framework for secular or pastoral clinicians to help contain and deconstruct trauma beliefs when survivors use biblical meaning‐making (2016).…”

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Truth in myth: Ancient Stories' windows on treating modern trauma

Kieran

2023

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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AimExamine frameworks of myth in the theory and treatment of sequalae of intimate and interpersonal traumas, often seen and experienced by practicing nurses.DesignA discursive narrative review using a trauma‐informed lens.MethodsReview of existing frameworks using myth to understand or treat trauma. Due to limited literature from 1945 to 2023, a strategy akin to snowball sampling was used: exploration of source references, an unstructured interview, and a synthesis of existing approaches to interpersonal and intimate trauma.ResultsEffective treatments for post‐traumatic stress disorder exist, but reach is limited. Nursing is under‐represented in the existing literature on myth and trauma, which does not sufficiently include intimate and interpersonal traumas.ConclusionEncounters with myths encourage healing from interpersonal violence by making clear connections to universal themes while engaging intellect and emotions.Implications for the Profession and/or Patient CareEncounters with myths could help to mitigate trauma sequalae. Nurses are positioned to develop and test evidence‐based, highly flexible, patient‐centred interventions using myth.Impact Identified gap: research using myth to address intimate and interpersonal violence. Under‐studied intervention: a few works suggest myth encounters benefit combat trauma survivors. All nurses encounter individuals with trauma histories. Myths may build empathy and efficacy. Reporting MethodNo EQUATOR guidelines were discovered for the paper format.Patient/Public ContributionNo patient or public contribution.

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Truth in myth: Ancient Stories' windows on treating modern trauma

Kieran

2023

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…. For discussion of psalms in relation to trauma and recovery, seeHays (2016),Dickie (2019aDickie ( , 2019b andStrawn (2016). 26.…”

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Engaging Westermann and the Assumptive World

Boase

2021

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

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The work of Claus Westermann was foundational for the modern study of lament literature in the Hebrew Bible. Westermann’s work on the Psalms arose from his experiences in the Second World War, where he learned to value both the praise and the lament elements of the Psalms. This article reconsiders Westermann’s contribution to the theology of lament in light of contemporary theory on the impact of trauma on individuals, focussing on the understanding of the impact of traumatic experience on the assumptive world of those who suffer. There are significant points of correspondence between the two, demonstrating anew the insights of Westermann’s work.

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“Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child:” Considering the Metaphor of Divine Adoption in the Context of Trauma

Claassens

2023

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This article will explore the rhetorical and theological significance of the metaphor of divine adoption in the Hebrew Bible. In Ps 22:10–11 and Ps 71:6–9 God is not only said to pull the psalmist out of his/her mother’s womb, but in a context in which many mothers all too often died in childbirth, the newborn is cast upon God who steps in as the adoptive mother. This idea of divine adoption is further found in Psalm 68:5 when God is described as the “Father of orphans… [who] gives the desolate a home to live in”. And in Psalm 27:9–10, God is praised by the psalmist as “God of my salvation!” saying that “if my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will take me up”. In a context in which fathers and mothers either have died or have forsaken their children, God is thus portrayed as the adoptive parent who, as evident in the creative reinterpretation of Ps 68:5 in the African American spiritual referenced in the title of the essay serves as “Mother to the motherless, and father to the fatherless”. I argue that when it is important to keep in mind the complexities associated with this metaphor, which includes not only the multiple layers of trauma associated with the origin and reception of this metaphor but also the trauma associated with the adoptive process and the ongoing relationship between parent and adopted child that may be fraught with ambiguity. Read in the context of individual and collective trauma, this article makes a case for the interpretative potential of this metaphor in times when people literally and figuratively have felt, and still may be feeling, like motherless (and fatherless) children.

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The Intersection of Biblical Lament and Psychotherapy in the Healing of Trauma Memories

Cited by 3 publications

References 25 publications

Truth in myth: Ancient Stories' windows on treating modern trauma

Truth in myth: Ancient Stories' windows on treating modern trauma

Engaging Westermann and the Assumptive World

“Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child:” Considering the Metaphor of Divine Adoption in the Context of Trauma

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