Many people think there is one way to resolve the abuse of power in our world - take action. Others believe in prayer as a method of ending abuse. But there is another way most don't know about or understand - each of us doing our own work within our psyches, our own work with our relationship with power. Judith Barr teaches that the abuse of power in our world will be healed...when in addition to action and prayer, each of us heals our own misuse and abuse of power, conscious and unconscious.

Weaving fairy tale with current life events, Power Abused, Power Healed reveals teachings about misuse and abuse of power and the vast healing that is possible, individually and globally.

With The Emperor’s New Clothes as a basis for her stories, psychotherapist and storyteller Judith Barr reveals multiple abuses of authority by showing us a different ending to the fairy tale in each chapter. The reader meets the grown-up counterparts to the children emotionally wounded by the vain Emperor, as they suffer similar abuses from those in the “healing professions” -- therapists, workshop leaders, spiritual teachers – and even from a governor, before reaching a breakthrough, growth, and healing.

To help deepen the reader’s healing experience, Judith includes a section called “Here and Now,” full of soul-searching questions designed to help the reader examine the  roots of his

or her own relationship  with power, and take steps in the journey towards his or her own inner healing.

Power Abused, Power Healed is intended for anyone willing to explore his or her relationship with power: how it was formed; how it was wounded; how it is used, misused and abused; how it impacts our world; and how it can be healed.  This most obviously includes individuals, parents, families; and therapists, counselors, group leaders. Since the same dynamics of power abuse and its healing apply to every arena where people live and work, it also includes those in religious, educational, corporate, political, and governmental institutions.