The healing journey of forgiveness and expressive arts as facilitator of the forgiveness process

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dc.contributor.authorBremer, Elizabeth S.
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-20T02:11:16Z
dc.date.available2025-03-20T02:11:16Z
dc.date.issued1990
dc.description.abstractThis study explores the forgiveness process and how the use of expressive arts facilitates the process. Interviews with eight participants are analyzed qualitatively and compared to the literature. The interviews identified a consistent process of four clearly defined steps. The steps are: (a) to recognize a wound, received from or inflicted upon another specific person; (b) to express one's own emotions, feelings and thoughts in relation to the wounding; (C) to recognize a moral or healing value or purpose of the wound-recognition and of the expression and to choose to cooperate with that value or purpose; and (d) to experience increasing levels of personality integration-- creative integration of emotional affect and lost aspects of personality--resulting in new freedoms, new abilities, and new choices for action, both for oneself and in relation to others. The expressive arts creative process is shown to facilitate the forgiveness process, and a number of specific applications and contributions of expressive arts methods are explored.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11803/3044
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisher.institutionJohn F. Kennedy University (JFKU)
dc.subjectForgiveness--therapeutic use
dc.subjectArts
dc.subjectPsychology
dc.titleThe healing journey of forgiveness and expressive arts as facilitator of the forgiveness process
dc.typeThesis
thesis.degree.disciplinePsychology
thesis.degree.grantorJohn F. Kennedy University (JFKU)
thesis.degree.levelMasters
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