Description
About the Author
Shahrzad Siassi, PhD, FIPA, is a psychologist-psychoanalyst with a private practice in Sherman Oaks, California. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute and a Senior Faculty Member at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. She has published and taught extensively on the topic of forgiveness. She has presented papers and been a panellist in the US and abroad at various meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association on topics related to forgiveness. Dr. Siassi is the recipient of Karl Menninger Memorial Award (2003) of the American Psychoanalytic Association and is the past president of the San Fernando Valley Psychological Association in Los Angeles.
Reviews
'Forgiveness has long been a neglected subject in psychoanalysis. At long last Dr Siassi has provided us with a courageous, thoughtful and systematic review of the subject from a psychoanalytic perspective. Her insights into the process of forgiving and withholding forgiveness will be of great value to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists who are just beginning as well as those with years of experience.' - Glen O. Gabbard, MD, author of Love and Hate in the Analytic Setting'Deftly weaving insights drawn from clinical psychoanalysis with those provided by philosophy, religion, fiction, cinema and the throbbing ebb and flow of daily life, Shahrzad Siassi deepens our understanding of forgiveness. With eloquence and sensitivity, she elucidates the relationships between forgiveness, trauma, mourning, and acceptance. Her oeuvre is vast and includes references not only to Freud, Rado, Schafer, Stolorow, Lansky, and Fonagy but also to Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Derrida, Arendt, Kristeva, and even Woody Allen. The result is a tour de force of theoretical rigor, clinical acumen, and humanitarian concern!' - Salman Akhtar, MD, Training and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
Book Information
ISBN 9781780490625
Author Shahrzad Siassi
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Karnac Books
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd