The Moral Injury of Wife Abandonment |
I was listening to an interview on CBC radio the other day with Brian Stewart, a journalist with a long career of reporting from areas of the world touched by war, famine, or other great tragedies. He talked about the emotional conflict that he experienced, watching human suffering but not being permitted to help; he was required to simply report on it.
He said that when he was in that position, he experienced moral injury—a wound to the soul; a