Exploring Forgiveness

Contributors

CONTRIB UTORS PAUL W. COLEMAN is a psychologist in private practice in Wappingers Falls, New York. He is the author of four books including The For;giving Marriage and most recently Getting to the Heart of the Matter: How to Halt Ongoing Marital Conflict Once andfor All. He is also a columnist for Marriage magazine. He has been married for twelve years and is the father of three children. REV. DAVID COUPER was chief of police in Madison, Wisconsin, from 1972 to 1993. He retired from the police department to pursue a call to the Christian ministry. He is an ordained priest of the Episcopal church and is currently the rector ofSt. John the Baptist Episcopal Church in Portage, Wisconsin. WALTER J. DICKEY is a professor oflaw at the University ofWisconsin -Madison. He directed the Department of Corrections in Wisconsin from 1983 to 1987. He has written extensively in the field of criminal justice and has supervised work on the Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program. JOSEPH W. ELDER has been a professor of the University of Wisconsin -Madison Departments ofSociology and South Asian Studies since 1961. He has lectured and made documentary films about contemporary Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. On several occasions he has served as a member of Quaker teams carrying messages to and trying to maintain dialogues between parties that were at war with each other. ROBERT D. ENRIGHT is a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has pioneered the social scientific study offorgiveness within psychology. Within his own discipline, he has published, along with various coauthors, the first empirically based study on forgiveness, the first scientifically tested intervention on forgiveness, and the first article detailing a measure of interpersonal forgiveness that targets specific offenses and offenders. He organized the first national conference on forgiveness ever held within a university setting. IX x Contributors RICHARD FITZGIBBONS, MD, is a psychiatrist who trained at the Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center. In 1986 he published a seminal paper in the journal Psychotherapy on the clinical uses offorgiveness in the treatment ofexcessive anger. Over the past twenty years he has been in demand for conferences and workshops on the treatment ofanger and the uses offorgiveness across the life-span. He maintains a private practice outside Philadelphia. BEVERLY FLANIGAN is a clinical professor ofsocial work who teaches and writes in the areas ofprofessional ethics and substance abuse. Her qualitative research on interpersonal forgiveness began in 1980 (funded by the Kellogg Foundation) and culminated with Macmillan's publication of her book For;giving the Unforgivable, which has been translated into German (Rowalt Press). A frequent trainer of medical and helping professionals, she is the author of For;giving Yourself (Macmillan, 1996). SUZANNE FREEDMAN is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University ofNorthern Iowa. As a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison she wrote a brilliant dissertation in which she helped female incest survivors to forgive their perpetrators. That work is now published, with Robert Enright, in the Journal ofConsulting and Clinical Psychology. MARIETTA JAEGER has been giving presentations and leading workshops and retreats on forgiveness for twenty-one years and currently works for THE WITNESS, an ecumenical social justice magazine. She lives in the inner city of Detroit as a member of the Detroit Peace Community, a Catholic Worker-based group which advocates for peace, justice, and nonviolence. She is a board member of Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation, whose primary mission is to abolish the death penalty. JOANNA NORTH is a freelance writer living in England. She earned a master of philosophy degree from the University of London in 1984 and has written several articles on philosophical topics including forgiveness and is currently writing a doctoral thesis on the philosophy offorgiveness. She was the editor of a book, The GCSE: An Examination, published by Claridge Press, 1985. GCSE is the General Certificate of Secondary Education; this book was a critique of English secondary education. She has three children. JULIO RIQUE is a graduate student in the Department ofEducational Psychology at the University ofWisconsin-Madison. He has pioneered the psychological study of forgiveness in Brazil and is currently examining a measure ofinterpersonal forgiveness in northeastern Brazil. Contributors xi DONALD W. SHRIVER, JR., was president of Union Theological Seminary from 1975 to 1991, and he continues on the faculty there as...