Love: Bondage or Liberation?: A Psychological Exploration of the Meaning, Values and Dangers of Falling in Love

ISBN-13: 9781855755109 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 208 str.

Deidre Johnson

Opis

Much has been written about the function of falling in love in the course of therapy itself. This book has a much broader aim. Deirdre Johnson, a Jungian analyst and psychotherapy trainer, uses her teaching and clinical experience to illuminate the whole range of this near universal human experience.How, and why, does falling in love affect us so profoundly? How can it enhance who we are, or must it ultimately fade without lasting value? Johnson argues that the many valuable studies by psychoanalysts, relational psychologists, anthropologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers have all made valuable contributions, and uses these to highlight and explore the many values and dangers inherent in passionate love. However, she claims that a more holistic approach is required to show how these various accounts can be seen as complementary rather than competing, and can be accommodated within an overarching view of the integration of the human being in its heights and depths.Deirdre Johnson's interdisciplinary approach cuts across the different modalities and will appeal to a good cross-section of psychotherapists and counsellors, while being accessible to anyone interested in the meaning of falling in love.

Spis treści

Preface , Introduction , A Quest for Meaning: The Different Narratives to Describe the Phenomenon of Falling in Love , (A) What we have been: the first love affair , The psychoanalytic discourse: emphasizing the intrapersonal , The relational psychologies discourse: including the interpersonal , (B) What we are: embodied beings , The scientific discourse , (C) What we may be: individuation , The teleological discourse , The religious discourse , Love's Alchemy: Putting It All Together , Various dualisms and their synthesis , Holistic love: what difference does all of this make?

O autorze

Deirdre Johnson