Psychotherapy and social responsibility: the challenging case of homicide

Title: Psychotherapy and social responsibility: the challenging case of homicide
Creator: Morrall, Peter; Hazelton, Mike; Shackleton, William
Relation: Psychotherapy and Politics International Vol. 11, p. 102-113
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppi.1302
Publisher: Wiley
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2013
Description: In this article we consider the social basis of homicide and the suffering experienced by secondary victims (the family, friends and close associates of the primary victim) and tertiary victims (the communities and societies of primary and secondary victims). We propose that alongside the legitimate and enacted professional role in the sphere of personal suffering, psychotherapists have an ethical obligation to tackle the social roots of such suffering. Specifically, we challenge psychotherapists and their organisations to commence or increase substantially individual and collective engagement aimed at reducing fatal violence in global society by addressing those causative factors which lie beyond individual bio-psychopathology. Such substantive "moral action" can contribute significantly to the present underdeveloped socially responsible basis of psychotherapy.
Subject: homicide; violence; victims; suffering; social responsibility; moral action
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1067550
Identifier: uon:18431
Identifier: ISSN:1556-9195
Language: eng
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