Article September 3, 2001 Issue

'Why should I forgive you?'

By Robert Enright

A PROFESSOR IN THE Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for 23 years, Robert Enright teaches courses in moral psychology, adolescent development, and forgiveness. His research focuses exclusively on forgiveness.

Professor Enright has written three three books. Exploring Forgiveness offers essays by professionals, as well as personal testimonies to the effectiveness of forgiveness. Helping Clients Forgive is a book he wrote with Richard P.Fitzgibbons. This book is for anyone in a "helping profession," whether a pastoral counselor, teacher, psychologist, priest, or rabbi. [Editor's Note: Two excerpts from this book appear in the Items of Interest section of this issue.]

Forgiveness Is Choice: A Step-By-Step Process for Resolving Anger and Restoring Hope, Enright's latest book on forgiveness, is geared to the general public, particularly people who might want to forgive someone, and need help in doing so. Professor Enright is also president of the International Forgiveness Institute, a not-for-profit organization that he formed in the early 1990s.

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