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Healing Through ForgivenessFor Further Reading:• Casarjian R: Forgiveness: A BoldChoice for a Peaceful Heart. Bantam,1992.• Enright, RD: Forgiveness is a Choice: AStep-by-Step Process for ResolvingAnger and Restoring Hope.Washington, DC, APA Books, 2001.• www.forgivenessinstitute.org(International site based on the work ofDr. Enright)• Flanigan B: Forgiving the Unforgivable:Overcoming the Bitter Legacy ofIntimate Wounds. Macmillan, 1992.Has a number of useful healingexercises in Part III.• Jampolsky GG: Forgiveness: TheGreatest Healer of All. Beyond Words,1999.• Kornfield J: The Art of Forgiveness,Lovingkindness, and Peace. New York,Bantam, 2004.• Kornfield J: Beginner’s Series: TheBeginner’s Guide to Forgiveness: Howto Free Your Heart and AwakenCompassion. Sounds True, 2002. CDwith forgiveness meditations.• Kushner HS: How Good Do We Haveto Be?: A New Understanding of Guiltand Forgiveness. Little, Brown, andCompany, 1996. Useful book for issuesrelating to self-forgiveness.• Luskin F: Forgive for Good. New York:Harper Collins, 2002• www.learningtoforgive.com (Dr. Luskin’swebsite)• Meninger WA: The Process ofForgiveness. New York, Continuum,1998.• Smedes LB: Forgive and Forget:Healing the Hurts We Don’t Deserve.San Francisco, Harper and Row, 1984.• Worthington E: Five Steps toForgiveness: The Art and Science ofForgiving. New York: Crown, 2001• www.forgiving.org (Website of aworldwide organization conductingresearch on the importance offorgiveness)• www.forgivenessday.org (Website of theWorld Forgiveness Alliance)This handout was created by AdamRindfleisch, M.Phil., MD, Asst. Prof.,Integrative Medicine Program, Dept. ofFamily Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison. It was adapted from: Rakel, DP(Ed.) Integrative Medicine, 2 nd Ed.,Philadelphia, PA: WB Saunders, an imprintof Elsevier, 2007.Date Reviewed: July 12, 2007PATIENT HANDOUT 4University of Wisconsin Integrative Medicine