Forgiveness Is a Choice

A Step-by-Step Process for Resolving Anger and Restoring Hope

Robert D. Enright (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

299 Seiten

2019
American Psychological Association (Verlag)
978-1-4338-3130-0 (ISBN)

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A transformative guide reveals how genuine forgiveness can release anger, depression, and lingering resentment. By carefully differentiating true forgiveness from mere pseudoforgiveness, it offers practical strategies to let go of emotional pain, reclaim self-worth, and open a pathway toward inner peace and renewed hope.

Forgiveness Is a Choice is a self-help book for people who have been deeply hurt by another and caught in a vortex of anger, depression, and resentment.

As a creator of the first scientifically proven forgiveness program in the country, Robert D. Enright shows how forgiveness can reduce anxiety and depression while increasing self-esteem and hopefulness toward one's future.

This groundbreaking work demonstrates how forgiveness, approached in the correct manner, benefits the forgiver far more than the forgiven. Filled with wisdom and warm encouragement, the book leads the reader on a path that will bring clarity and peace.

Enright is careful to distinguish forgiveness from "pseudoforgiveness" and to reassure readers that forgiveness does not mean accepting continued abuse or even reconciling with the offender. Rather, by giving the gift of forgiveness, readers are encouraged to confront and let go of their pain in order to regain their lives.

Robert D. Enright, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and a professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He has been a leader in the scientific study of forgiveness and its effects since 1985. Time magazine referred to him as "the forgiveness trailblazer". He is the author of more than 100 publications, including five books. In 2022, he received the American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology for his innovative work in forgiveness. He and his colleagues have developed and tested a pathway to forgiveness that has helped incest survivors, and people in drug rehabilitation, in hospice, in shelters for abused women, and in cardiac units of hospitals, among others. His recent work has been in schools within conflict regions, such as Belfast, Northern Ireland, assisting teachers to deliver forgiveness programs to students.

Acknowledgments

I. Forgiveness is a Choice

Forgiveness: A Path to Freedom
What Forgiveness Is...and What It Is Not
Why Forgive... and the Consequences of Not Forgiving

II. The Process of Forgiveness

A Map and Tools for Your Journey
Acknowledging Your Anger
Confronting the Depth of Your Anger
Committing to Forgive
Gaining Perspectives
Building Positive Feelings, Thoughts and Behaviors
Experiencing Discovery and Release From Emotional Prison
Saying "I Forgive You"

III. Going Deeper

More Questions to Help You Forgive
Helping Clients Forgive
Wanting to Be Forgiven
Reconciling

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Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.10.2020
Reihe/Serie	APA LifeTools Series
Verlagsort	Washington DC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4338-3130-9 / 1433831309
ISBN-13	978-1-4338-3130-0 / 9781433831300
Zustand	Neuware