In this paper, we analyze four concepts used by psychological research of human woundedness to try to explain why the personal path to recovery and full life in a secularized world is long and why questions of interpersonal and collective connection, faith and spirituality also arise on this path. Extreme traumatic experiences destroy a person‘s trust in the world, themselves and others, trigger the process of making sense or meaning, and cause deep personal and collective moral injuries. We argue that research and treatment of these injuries in social psychology and psychotherapy has shown that the secularized world today, after many decades of denial and living in despair and meaninglessness, has come to understand that healing human woundedness is a life-changing personal, interpersonal, collective and spiritual process which involves creating authentic life narratives of redemption.
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