One more follow-up, please. This is my sixth follow-up. There is advice floating around that to forgive is to do your own private work on yourself by reducing anger and discontent. After our exchange of ideas, this seems incorrect to me. What can be done to correct this misinformation that seems to be popular now?
A key issue is this: Always and without exception, get to know the definition of forgiveness, what it is and what it is not. An entire issue of the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (February 2025) was dedicated to this very issue. The central paper, which attempted a definitive definition of forgiveness based on philosophical analysis, is this:
Song, J., Enright, R.D., & Kim, J. (2025). Definitional drift within the science of forgiveness:
The dangers of avoiding philosophical analyses. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 45(1), 3-24. Note: This is the centerpiece article for a special issue on the definition of forgiveness within psychology.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/teo0000278
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