How Can I Forgive You?, Janis A. Spring, PhD
How Can I Forgive You?, Janis A. Spring, PhD
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How Can I Forgive You?
The Courage to Forgive, the Freedom Not To

Author: Janis A. Spring, PhD, Michael Spring

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Unabridged: 7 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/23/2016


Synopsis

Until now, we have been taught that forgiveness is good for us and that good people forgive. Dr. Spring, a gifted therapist and the award-winning author of After the Affair, proposes a radical, life-affirming alternative that lets us overcome the corrosive effects of hate and get on with our lives—without forgiving. She also offers a powerful and unconventional model for genuine forgiveness—one that asks as much of the offender as it does of us.

This bold and healing book offers step-by-step, concrete instructions that help us make peace with others and with ourselves, while answering such crucial questions as these:

How do I forgive someone who is unremorseful or dead?
When is forgiveness cheap?
What is wrong with refusing to forgive?
How can the offender earn forgiveness?
How do we forgive ourselves for hurting another human being?

About Janis A. Spring, PhD

Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD, is a nationally acclaimed expert on issues of trust, intimacy, and forgiveness. She is the bestselling author of After the Affair and How Can I Forgive You? Both books were finalists for the Books for a Better Life Award. Dr. Spring is a diplomat in clinical psychology and has served as a clinical supervisor in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. In private practice for more than four decades, she lives with her husband in Westport, Connecticut, and they have four sons.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ruth

This is the best thing I've ever read on forgiveness, even better than Getting Even: Forgiveness and Its Limits. The author explores the psychological processes involved in forgiving or deciding not to forgive someone. Most people act like forgiveness is a single simple decision to turn off their an......more

Goodreads review by Kari

Great material that truly opens your eyes to the importance of forgiveness if you want to live a happy, guilt free life. It may not work for everyone, but this book gave so many different examples of the the types of deceit, anger and pain that was caused. It also walks through the different types o......more