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...money in hopes of buying forgiveness for itself. The surging scandal over sexual abuse by the priesthood is proving as financially damaging to the church as it is hurtful to the faith, as Catholic dioceses across the country dole out huge sums to victims to compensate them for their pain and keep them silent...
...life, ultimately leading her to suicide, was primarily formed by the traumatic losses she suffered at a young age. Woolf’s mother died when she was 13. Before she reached age 25, she had lost her sister, father and brother as well. Dalsimer finds the recurring pain of these losses throughout Woolf’s writings, paying special attention to the way Woolf’s work deals with the death of her mother. Dalsimer sets the relationship between Mrs. Ramsay, the matriarch of the family in To The Lighthouse, and Lily Briscoe, the artist figure...
...incapable of controlling. In Dalsimer’s analysis, Woolf’s voracious desire to read as a child and her subsequent decision to become a writer are “medicine” for Woolf’s depression. Woolf reads to distract herself from the pain she feels and she writes so that she can become aware of her emotions and come to terms with them...
...effective cure. In her analysis of Woolf’s later writings, Dalsimer exposes the limitation of Woolf’s work to positively affect her emotional state. By depicting Woolf’s art as an involuntary drive, Dalsimer shows that writing can distract Woolf from her pain without necessarily getting to the core of her illness...
...assistance in finding further therapy, financial assistance to pay for it and financial restitution for the abuse, O'Connell writes, "I will do some consulting as to how best to do what you ask. In the meantime, for whatever it may be worth, I am offering part of this pain so that it can be redemptive in some way for yourself...