Remorse and Reparation

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1999 - Psychology - 224 pages

Remorse, or rather the lack of it, frequently features in banner headlines. But there is little systematic study of this important inter-disciplinary topic whose relevance has extensive social ramifications. Should a show of remorse by an offender be taken into account in sentencing? Is there a correlation between the experience of remorse and a diminished likelihood of re-offending? And is there a correlation between the experience and the expression of remorse? Such questions, and the complex relationship between remorse, shame, guilt and attempts at reparation, are discussed in this authoritative work.

This volume is the first comprehensive attempt to bring together both forensic clinicians and those working within the criminal justice system. There is also a series of chapters by those writing from the adjacent complementary disciplines of moral philosophy, classics, Shakespeare studies, sociology and anthropology.

 

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Contents

PUBLISHERS NOTE
7
Reflections on Remorse in Forensic Psychotherapy
21
The Agenbite of Inwit or The Varieties
33
The Personal View
49
Freud and Remorse
63
Interferences
69
Feelings of Guilt and the Attribution of Blame
83
Through the Lens
95
A Philosophical Analysis
127
Social Suffering and the Politics of Remorse
145
Representations of Remorse and Reparation
171
Abhorring of Himselfe is a Remembering
179
Remorse as
189
REFERENCES
201
THE CONTRIBUTORS
211
AUTHOR INDEX
223

Remorse and Rehabilitation
107
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Murray Cox
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About the author (1999)

Murray Cox M.A.F.R.C.Psych.M.Inst.G.A.(Hon) was Consultant Psychotherapist at Broadmoor Hospital from 1970 to 1997. He edited Shakespeare Comes to Broadmoor and Forensic Psychotherapy: Crime Psychodynamics and the Offender Patient (jointly with Christopher Cordess) and wrote Shakespeare as Prompter and Mutative Metaphors in Psychotherapy with Alice Theilgaard, all published by Jessica Kingsley.

Bibliographic information

TitleRemorse and Reparation
FORENSIC FOCUS , NO 7
Forensic focus
AuthorMurray Cox
Editionillustrated
PublisherJessica Kingsley Publishers, 1999
ISBN1853024511, 9781853024511
Length224 pages
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Medical / Mental Health
Psychology / General
Psychology / Psychotherapy / General
Social Science / Criminology
  
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