thoughts on perpetrator and victim

A little twitter prose of three tweets: on perpetrator and victim:

• If you accept your own nature being both light and shadow it is in turn easier to forgive those who have harmed you…the enemy is within.
• Everyone has been perpetrator and victim at one time or another. No one escapes this reality.
• We’ve all been victims and we’ve all abused. We are also all capable of love and forgiveness and healing.

This was one response I got that I also thought was worth sharing. Written by a dean who is also a member of faculty at a school of social work in New York.

• @njsmyth I agree completely @BeyondMeds. When students tell me that can’t work with perpetrators I say “you already do.”

if that isn’t explicit enough for you it’s because everyone has perpetrated!

See also: The psychotherapeutic community needs to tolerate diversity, dissonance, divergence

also: Reactivity, empathy, perpetrator and victims

Related to reactivity in relationships:

• Narcissist…the evil other
• Empaths, empathy, healing and relationships
• Narcissism (the plague of our times?)
• Victim / perpetrator — some ideas that challenge popular thinking
• Twitter thoughts on perpetrator and victim

AND: Empathy, compassion and vulnerability: collection

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