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  • This author examines the concept of forgiveness as a psychological construct. He argues that it is an error to conceive of the capacity to forgive in exclusively intrapsychic terms, pointing to the mutual influence of psychic and interpersonal experience in the struggle to forgive. He suggests that we can meaningfully consider the psychic challenges involved in any instance of forgiving only when we can fully understand the relational context in which the wrongdoing has taken place. The author then considers the concept of forgiveness when applied to hate crimes in general and Matthew Shepard's murder in particular, exploring some psychic alternatives to forgiveness that may be useful in thinking about the human struggle to resolve the mental anguish and desire for revenge that can threaten to undo us. He argues against an agenda-based approach to psychotherapeutic treatment that is biased toward encouraging forgiveness and seeing it as an indispensable component of psychological health. If forgiveness is to function as a viable psychological construct with real healing potential in human relationships, psychoanalysts must work to free it from its moralistic and religious moorings.

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Author:Martin Stephen Frommer
Parent Title (English):Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 033-045.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2005
Release Date:2017/11/20
Format:xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage
IdNo:Frommer_M_S_2005
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
Licence (German):
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