Overview

Does forgiveness help? Many people come for help because they remain stuck in a destructive relationship, job or legal battle, or with painful memories of child abuse. But does it necessarily help to forgive? Forgiveness and the Healing Process debates these issues from different perspectives - Christian and agnostic. Experienced contributors cover: the place of forgiveness in working with individuals and couples; the benefits of mediation as a way forward both for individuals within an organisation and also within the criminal justice system; the key place of forgiveness in the political context of post-apartheid South Africa. a client's view of seeking forgiveness. Forgiveness and the Healing Process helps psychotherapists, counsellors, social workers, mediators, psychiatrists, and those working in the criminal justice system understand where forgiveness can facilitate the therapeutic process.

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9781583911822

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A rare sourcebook, a wake-up book and an invigorating and moving read. - Valerie Sinason, Director of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies, London

Contemporary, accessible, theoretically authoritative and practically informative, Forgiveness and the Healing Process embraces the political, theological, criminological, organisational and psychotherapeutic dimensions and dynamics of forgiveness and reconcilliation in a way no other book does. - Colin Feltham, Reader in Counselling, Sheffield Hallam University, UK This is a very good book ... It deals in a masterly way with issues such as letting go, resolution, restitution and so forth ... If you want to think about foregiveness, this book would be a great help. - John Rowan in BACP North London Magazine, September 2004 '... this is a humane, engaging and challenging book that can lead us to revisit our values and beliefs.' - Fevronia Christodoulidi, British Journal of Guidance and Counselling

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Cynthia Ransley, Terri Spy

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