Forgiveness in Intimate Relationships

This book centres on the challenge of forgiveness and recovery from trauma in intimate relationships as viewed psychodynamically in the clinical context. Traumas inflicted by intimates, especially by parents, differ from transgressions and betrayals-however legitimately traumatizing-committed in less psychically-rooted relationships.

Shahrzad Siassi

Introduction , Forgiveness in the Clinical Situation , True forgiveness belongs to psychoanalysis , Forgiveness and trauma , Forgiveness and mourning , Forgiveness and acceptance , Self-forgiveness in Art , Fyodor Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment-from relentless guilt and isolation to forgiveness and rapprochement , Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors and Match Point-existential flight from guilt and forgiveness , Epilogue