Love and Therapy : In Relationship.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (191 pages)
- The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy Series .
- The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Dedication -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE What has love to do with it? -- CHAPTER TWO Love and its shadows: an existential view -- CHAPTER THREE Humanistic and transpersonal perspectives on love -- CHAPTER FOUR Psychoanalytic perspectives of love -- CHAPTER FIVE Love: psychosexual perspectives -- CHAPTER SIX Physical love -- CHAPTER SEVEN Love, separation, and reconciliation: systemic theory and its relationship with emotions -- CHAPTER EIGHT Working with children: the importance of love -- CHAPTER NINE The place of love in crisis support -- CHAPTER TEN Transcultural perspectives and themes on love and hate: the yin and yang of relationships -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Memento mori and carpe diem: love and death -- CHAPTER TWELVE Love: retaking a stance -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Therapy and neuroscience: what has the L-word to do with it? -- AFTERWORD -- INDEX.
This important book looks at the place of love in therapy and whether it is the curative factor. The authors continually stress, however, that within psychotherapy both ethical and professional boundaries should govern this 'Love' at all times in order for it to be experienced as healing and therapeutic.