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Forgiveness Is a Choice: A Step-By-Step Process for Resolving Anger and Restoring Hope (Apa Lifetools) |  | Author: Robert D. Enright
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 14677
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 299
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Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.6 x 1.1
ISBN: 1557987572
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.92
EAN: 9781557987570
ASIN: 1557987572
Publication Date: May 2001
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Forgiveness Is a Choice is a self-help book for people who have been deeply hurt by another and caught in a vortex of anger, depression, and resentment. As a creator of the first scientifically proven forgiveness program in the country, Robert D. Enright shows how forgiveness can reduce anxiety and depression while increasing self-esteem and hopefulness toward one's future. This groundbreaking work demonstrates how forgiveness, approached in the correct manner, benefits the forgiver far more than the forgiven. Filled with wisdom and warm encouragement, the book leads the reader on a path that will bring clarity and peace. Enright is careful to distinguish forgiveness from "pseudoforgiveness" and to reassure readers that forgiveness does not mean accepting continued abuse or even reconciling with the offender. Rather, by giving the gift of forgiveness, readers are encouraged to confront and let go of their pain in order to regain their lives.
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 Therapist February 2, 2010
Therapist
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wonderful book for anyone struggling with letting go and forgiving. Puts the power in the person who has been wronged.
Strong Scientific Support for Forgiveness Is a Choice January 31, 2010
Richard P. Fitzgibbons (W. Conshohocken, PA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a long-time colleague of Dr. Enright, I thought it important to cite the extensive research published in peer reviewed and in academic journals which have documented the benefits of forgiveness for children, adolescents and adults based on the 20-step program outlined in this book.
Dr. Enright's research is excellent and has led the American Psychological Association to conclude that forgiveness therapy is an effective, scientifically-based approach to treatment. Research studies in adults have demonstrated improved emotional health in the elderly, in incest survivors, in men hurt by the abortion decision of a partner, in young adults with parental sadness and anger, in substance abusers, in terminal illness in the elderly and in improved cardio-vascular health in those with cardiac disease.
In the research with children and adolescents, two studies showed that children in Belfast, Northern Ireland, who worked toward forgiving others as outlined in Chapter 13 of Forgiveness Is a Choice, experienced a significant reduction in both anger and depression compared to children who had not been taught to forgive. Similar results were shown in three studies with children in Milwaukee's central city. Also, a randomized study with adolescents close to academic failure showed that as they forgive, their academic achievement improved as their emotional health improved. Another study showed that parents can teach children to forgive and as they do so, the parents themselves begin to improve in forgiveness and experience a decrease in anger. Professor Enright's and colleagues' forgiveness education programs, based on the material in Forgiveness Is a Choice, has been implemented with children in Brazil, Taiwan, and Korea in addition to the cities already mentioned.
Does forgiveness help diminish excessive anger, sadness and anxiety in adults and in children and does the book Forgiveness Is a Choice offer assistance to those who choose to forgive? The science leads to the conclusion "yes."
Richard Fitzgibbons, M.D.
 Crap of a Book!!! January 15, 2010
Selina 64 (Caribbean)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This Book was sssssssooooooo Disappointing, I thought it would have been a lot more Interesting...
Don't waste your money ordering it!
 Disappointing September 1, 2009
Quirkywun (NorCal, USA)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I was looking for a book to help me through the forgiveness process. I bought this book ("Forgiveness is a Choice" by R.D. Enright) based on the excellent reviews. After reading this book twice and working through each exercise at least one, I find myself extremely disappointed.
The writing was fairly clear and concise. Enright provides many relevant examples throughout the book. The exercises promote thought and reflection with well-defined guidelines.
Ultimately, I felt the topic was not addressed adequately. The majority of the text focused on choosing forgiveness (hence the title) as an option to reduce depression and anxiety. Most of the exercises explored feelings of shame and guilt as associated with anger. After estimating the amount of energy devoted to angers and frustrations, readers are asked to consider forgiveness as a means to reduce their angers/frustrations.
All too much of this book is spent trying to convince the reader that forgiveness is a feasible, agreeable option. Far too little is spent on the actual process of "release" (i.e., forgiveness). I felt it was too general to be truly helpful.
I felt the book "Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames" by Thich Nhat Hanh was much more helpful regarding the transformation of anger.
I was VERY disappointed in this book January 6, 2009
J. M. Smith
4 out of 15 found this review helpful
This book came highly recommended as a book that gave you a choice to forgive or not and by so doing, allowing that not forgiving was ok and an acceptable choice. That is not what I found in this book. Beside the fact that it is dry and poorly written, it only seems to espouse forgiveness as a way to live through a past or current hurt. Well, I disagree. I do not think everything in this world is forgiveable and that an individual should have either option and be healthy with either choice. I do not feel if I choose to not forgive my spouse of 37 years for having 6 affairs for the past 26, one with a man, all with my friends and the past 13 with one friend who maintained our friendship, holding my hand through my double mastectomy, my MS diagnosis, etc., that I will be the worse for it if I do not forgive them. If I do, it will be for me, but I at this moment in time choose not to. Sorry. When this book was recommended to me, by one of the authors coauthors of another book, I understood it to be one that gave you an option and I see none in this book. Only forgiving and searching for anger you never knew you had, for your mother not letting you frost the cake when you were ten but let your sister. I have not time for that. I am in a major life crisis. This was a waste of my time and money.
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