Moral engine model: conceptualizing moral injury as a wound to the self caused by rupturing of defining and sustaining emotional attachments

Frontiers in Psychiatry | New and Recent Articles ·
Mind & Mental Health Switzerland

A theory is elaborated illuminating the nature of moral injury based on evolutionary biology and psychoanalytic object-relations and self psychology, which explains how the betrayal of a moral trust can produce not only the negative moral emotions and losses of social and spiritual engagement characteristic of moral injury, but also the entire spectrum of adverse peri-and post-traumatic stress…

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