What is the difference between using insight in therapy and forgiveness therapy? For example, Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic approach is to make that which is unconscious now conscious. I know there is more to psychoanalysis than this, but it is a core issue in that kind of mental health treatment. How does forgiveness therapy differ from making that which is unconscious now conscious?
Forgiveness therapy in the Uncovering Phase of this approach does try to bring to consciousness the effects of unjust treatment onto the person’s physical, mental, emotional, and even spiritual well-being. Once the negative effects of the unjust treatment are uncovered (made conscious), the point is not to leave the treatment there but now to shift the focus to the one who acted unfairly, to expand one’s view of the other. The point is to help the client develop even a small amount of compassion, through mercy, toward this person. The result tends to be the diminishing of the resentment in the client’s heart.
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