Jean Améry: beyond the mind's limits
This volume explores themes originating from the work of Jean Améry (1912-1978), a Holocaust survivor and essayist-mainly, ethics and the past, torture and its implications, death and suicide. The volume is interdisciplinary, bringing together contributions from philosophy, psyc…
The global humanitarian movement, which originated within Western religious organizations in the early nineteenth century, has been of most important forces in world politics in advancing both human rights and human welfare. While the religious groups that founded the movement …
This festschrift in honor of the work and legacy of Dr. Marc Groenhuijsen provides an international and holistic overview of recent developments in victimology, taking a global scope but grounded in everyday experiences of victims. Its multidisciplinary perspective reflects a ra…
For centuries women have experienced domestic violence from men they know, as a consequence of which many turn to public services for support. Traditionally, these services have failed to provide adequate support, yet it is through these interactions with the services that abuse…
In most relationships, we are often both victims and abusers at the same time. In other words, neither side is completely innocent. In this thesis, the victim is metaphorized as a person who doesn’t have power; abusers are people who don’t just have power, but who abuse that pow…
The present study investigated coping strategies (task-, emotional- and avoidance-oriented) utilized during and after experiencing interpersonal trauma and the variations in generational status (mainstream vs. heritage culture) with a Muslim sample residing in the United States.…
My final project for the D.M.A. in composition consists of a Requiem Mass honoring the victims of the Iraqi war, a conflict that has stirred public debate since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. It is not meant as a political statement; rather, it is intended as a tribute in the bro…
This study compared the construct of compassion fatigue with the role of attachment as a mediator among mental health clinicians working with victims of terrorism in the Israel and the New York metropolitan region. Differences between clinicians practicing within Israel (n = 31)…
The world has changed since September 11, 2001 and our nation remains at risk to additional terrorist attacks and will remain at risk for the foreseeable future. Even before the United States launched a war on Iraq, the threat of terrorist attacks on American soil had been a cau…
Many scholars are examining the characteristics of human trafficking. However, there are still major gaps in the human trafficking research literature. As a strategic area politically and geographically, and with a dynamic and developing economy, Turkey has become an attractive …
Torture is the most widespread human rights crime in the modern world, practiced in more than one hundred countries, including the United States. How could something so brutal, almost unthinkable, be so prevalent? The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary is designed to…