1st Edition
Forgiveness in Intimate Relationships A Psychoanalytic Perspective
By Shahrzad Siassi
Copyright 2013
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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How can one overcome deeply-held resentment so as to resume or establish a bond with a traumatizing person, mindful that the experience of the self is rooted in the very intimate relationships from which such trauma arose? This book centres on the challenge of forgiveness and recovery from trauma in intimate relationships as viewed psychodynamically in the clinical context. Traumas inflicted by... Read more
Introduction , Forgiveness in the Clinical Situation , True forgiveness belongs to psychoanalysis , Forgiveness and trauma , Forgiveness and mourning , Forgiveness and acceptance , Self-forgiveness in Art , Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment—from relentless guilt and isolation to forgiveness and rapprochement , Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors and Match Point—existential flight from guilt and forgiveness , Epilogue
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Shahrzad Siassi
