Spring, Janis Abrahms     <br/><br/>
How can I forgive you?   the courage to forgive, the freedom not to  
Janis Abrahms Spring 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York   HarperCollins,  c2004. 
 - xi, 254 p.   24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Contents:<br/>Introduction: Is forgiveness good for you?<br/>Cheap forgiveness: an inauthentic act of peacemaking that resolves nothing<br/>Refusing to forgive: a rigid response that keeps you entombed in hate<br/>Acceptance: a healing gift to yourself that asks nothing of the offender<br/>Genuine forgiveness: a healing transaction, an intimate dance<br/>Afterword<br/>Appendix: how the offender's childhood wounds shaped the way he treated you 
<br/><br/> Drawing on twenty-nine years as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Spring proposes a radically new, 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 asks of us 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0060009306 (alk paper) 9780060009304 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003050932 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Forgiveness.<br/>Self-help
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>179.9 Spr   7