Binding: Paperback
Description: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health considers the role of forgiveness in mental life concerning both forgiving and being forgiven. Each chapter addresses concepts including superego repetition compulsion enactment and notions such as sacrifice penance justification absolution and contrition. The contributors consider both their professional and clinical experience and their ethical cultural or philosophical background when considering aspects of forgiveness and its impact on clinical practice. The book is an attempt to open the subject of forgiveness not to reach ethical conclusions nor to formulate pious psychological behavioural axioms. It also considers the weight of feeling unforgiven and of holding the lifelong resentment or vengeful wishes of the unforgiving. Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health will be key reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in practice and in training and for other professionals interested in the role of forgiveness in mental life. It will also be of interest to academics and students of psychoanalytic studies philosophy and spirituality.
Title: Psychoanalytic Approaches To Forgiveness And Mental Health
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032427911
Pages: 206 Pages
Publication Date: 8/16/2023
Category: Psychotherapy