The Forgiving Self: The Road from Resentment to Connection
Description
Can we be forgiven our insensitivity and betrayals? Should we always forgive those who have hurt us? What enables us to reopen our hearts when we do? Interweaving themes from literature, movies, current events, and from his practice as a clinical psychologist, Robert Karen addresses the difficult questions at the heart of many human dramas, highlighting the strugglebetween our wish to repair our relationships on the one side and our tendency to see ourselves as victims who need revenge on the other. Dr. Karen writes that our capacity to forgive reveals much about our character–includi...
ISBN(s)
0385488734, 9780385488730
