You Don't Need to Forgive: Trauma Recovery on Your Own Terms - Couverture rigide

Gregory LCPC, Amanda Ann

Couverture rigide

ISBN 13 : 9798889831150

Editeur : Broadleaf Books, 2025

Synopsis

You can find peace, whether or not you forgive those who harmed you. Feeling pressured to forgive their offenders is a common reason trauma survivors avoid mental health services and support. Those who force, pressure, or encourage trauma survivors to forgive can unknowingly cause harm and sabotage their recovery. And such harm is entirely unnecessary--especially when research shows there is no consensus among psychologists, psychiatrists, and other professionals about whether forgiveness is necessary for recovery at all. You Don't Need to Forgive is an invaluable resource for trauma survivors and their clinicians who feel alienated and even gaslighted by the toxic positivity and moralism that often characterizes attitudes about forgiveness in psychology and self-help. Bringing together research and testimony from psychologists, psychotherapists, criminologists, philosophers, religious leaders, and trauma survivors, psychotherapist and expert in complex trauma recovery Amanda Ann Gregory explores the benefits of elective forgiveness and the dangers of required forgiveness. Elective forgiveness gives survivors the agency to progress in their recovery on their own terms. Forgiveness is helpful for some, but it is not universally necessary for recovery; each person should have the power to choose.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Amanda Ann Gregory is a trauma psychotherapist and national speaker whose work focuses on complex trauma recovery and the unique needs of trauma survivors. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Psychology Today, Psychotherapy Networker, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Happiful, and Highlights. She has provided trauma education and training for the American Counseling Association, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the Missouri Department of Mental Health, and other organizations. Gregory lives in Chicago, Illinois, with her partner and their sassy black cat, Mr. Bojangles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Broadleaf Books
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798889831150
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: BROADLEAF BOOKS; https://www.broadleafbooks.com/; ; 411 N. Washington Avenue, Third Floor; Minneapolis; MN; 55401; Etats-Unis
• Personne responsable: non disponible