How Can I Forgive You? (eBook)

The Courage to Forgive, The Freedom Not To

Janis A. Spring (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2009
272 Seiten
Harpercollins (Verlag)
978-0-06-186529-9 (ISBN)

Infos

If you are struggling with issues of betrayalor the challenge of whether and how to forgivehere is the most helpful and surprising book you will ever find on the subject.Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author of The Dance of AngerEveryone is struggling to forgive someone: an unfaithful partner, an alcoholic parent, an ungrateful child, a terrorist. This award-winning book provides a radical way for hurt parties to heal themselveswithout forgiving, as well as a way for offenders to earn genuine forgiveness.Until now, weve been taught that forgiveness is good for us and that good people forgive. Dr. Janis Abrahms Spring, a gifted clinical psychologist and award-winning author of After the Affair, proposes a radical, life-affirming alternative that lets us overcome the corrosive effects of hate and get on with our liveswithout forgiving. She also offers a powerful and unconventional model for earning genuine forgivenessone that asks as much of the offender as it does of the hurt party.Beautifully written and filled with insight, practical advice, and poignant case studies, this bold and healing book offers step-by-step, concrete instructions that help us make peace with others and ourselves, while answering such crucial questions as these:How do I forgive someone who is unremorseful or dead?When is forgiveness cheap?Can I heal myself without forgiving?How can the offender earn forgiveness?What makes for a good apology?How do we forgive ourselves for hurting another human being?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.10.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Familien- / Systemische Therapie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• ISBN-10: 0-06-186529-X / 006186529X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-06-186529-9 / 9780061865299