The inaugural edition of The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work focuses on the complex question of forgiveness. This edition includes papers and interviews from highly respected family therapists including Alan Jenkins, Monica McGoldrick, Kenneth V. Hardy and Karl Tomm, alongside moving stories from Audrey Kinnear co-chair of the National Sorry Day Committee, and powerful articles including ‘Women’s outrage and the pressure to forgive’ by Jussey Verco. Issues focused on include:
* childhood sexual abuse,
* domestic violence,
* deathbed forgiveness rituals,
* mental health treatment,
* prisons,
* responding to the events of September 11th.
Considerations of gender, culture and colonisation are a significant emphasis and Australia’s current treatment of asylum seekers is also responded to. The responsibility of the Christian Church in relation to issues of sexuality and abuse is the focus of two thoughtful articles.
The journal has a practice-based focus. Papers and interviews discuss ways of working with individuals, couples, families and communities in relation to questions of forgiveness and self-forgiveness and the myriad of complexities
this involves.
Featuring 21 different articles and interviews (96 pages), this edition is a significant resource!
CONTENTS
Editorial
PART ONE: The question of forgiveness
Stories of Sorry, forgiveness and healing
Audrey Kinnear
The church, confession, forgiveness and male sexual abuse
Patrick O’Leary
Re-thinking deathbed forgiveness rituals
Lorraine Hedtke
Coming to terms with the events of September 11th
Kenneth V. Hardy
Women’s anger and the pressure to forgive
Jussey Verco
Almost twenty years on… reflecting on ‘Father Daughter Rape’
Biff Ward
The work of Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation
Renny Cushing
Self forgiveness
Sue Jackson
Forgiveness and child sexual abuse: A matrix of meanings
Alan Jenkins, Maxine Joy & Rob Hall
The power in remembering
Vanessa Jackson
Forgiveness linked to justice
Charles Waldegrave
Ubuntu: Caring for people and community in South Africa
Elmarie Kotze et al
Enabling forgiveness and reconciliation in family therapy
Karl Tomm
Seeking safety and acknowledgement
WOWSAFE
Prisons and the question of forgiveness
David Denborough
On forgiving the church, families, science and those who remain silent
Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad
Coming to terms with the everyday violence of our culture
Monica McGoldrick
Insider knowledge:
The complexities of forgiveness
Sharon Gollan
A story for Dad and me
John William Jones
Embodying both oppressor and oppressed
Cathy Richardson
PART TWO:
Beginning to use a narrative approach in therapy
Alice Morgan
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