1st Edition

Forgiveness and the Healing Process A Central Therapeutic Concern

Edited By Cynthia Ransley, Terri Spy Copyright 2004
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

Many people come for help because they remain stuck in a destructive relationship, job, legal battle or memories of child abuse. A growing number of therapists believe that forgiveness is of crucial importance in helping people break away from these patterns of resentment and revenge. Does forgiveness help? Or is the concept out of date in our more secular society? Forgiveness and the Healing... Read more
Sinason, Foreword. Ransley, Spy, Introduction. Ransley, Forgiveness: Themes and Issues. Spy, Christianity, Therapy and Forgiveness. Ransley, Be Cautious About Forgiveness. Cooper, Gilbert, The Role of Forgiveness in Working with Couples. Carroll, Organisations and Forgiveness: The Challenge. Masters, Transformation, Healing or Forgiveness? Assisting Victims of Crime through Restorative Practice. Moosa, Eagle, Straker, In the Aftermath of Political Trauma: What Price Forgiveness? Green, My Journey Towards Healing and Forgiveness with the Aid of Therapy. Ransley, Spy, Letting Go: A Question of Forgiveness?

Biography

Cynthia Ransley, Terri Spy

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