The Kinder Sadist: A New Paradigm Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798593119599)

This novel reflects the values of community, partnerships, and the broad perspectives granted by multi-cultural, multi-racial perspectives. In the Old Paradigm, there is always a hero, or elite team sent in to save the day. The rugged individual, such as portrayed in much crime fiction, often features a hard-drinking man or woman who focuses on toughness and solutions rather than humanness and process. The Kinder Sadist explores the territory carved out by traumas caused by men conditioned by brutal treatment to perpetuate brutality, and it also explores the antidote to this brutality, trauma awareness and healing through understanding, loving relationships, self-regulation, and community. In some ways, The Kinder Sadist is a typical crime story: terrible things happen to good people. But it is also about understanding the origins of the violent actions taken by children left to suffer, without support or comfort, and the horrendous damage done to the psyche and spirit of such children. In this new-paradigm novel, the term "kinder sadist" was used by rape victims to describe a man who, in the act of brutalizing them, did his best to provide some small comfort during their brutalization. While the novel is only peripherally about this "kinder sadist," it does illustrate how a person is taken over by violent impulses when left without support.The novel's principle characters, Bernadette Nadeau and Olivia Wells, both in middle age when the narrative begins, illustrate how trauma is healed in layers and over time, especially when support is offered, sought. and found. A third, symbolic character, friendship, shows how those who accept us completely, especially after the worst has happened, are pivotal to our return, not only to safety, but to wholeness, and, ultimately, to joy. Wholeness is the theme of the novel's Epilogue in which friends come together to forge new ways of being in the world, not in spite of the traumas they have experienced, but because of them. When trauma is healed, it expands the mind, strengthens the heart, comforts the body, and soothes the soul. People who learn to heal after trauma, and who share their kindness and their wisdom with others, are forming the backbone of the New Paradigm.

Author: Jane Buchan
ISBN-13: 9798593119599
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 01/10/2021
Pages: 314
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d