Love and Death in Psychotherapy

ISBN-13: 9781403936028 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 208 str.

Robert Langs

Opis

Feelings of love, the wish for extra-therapeutic social contact, and the experience of sexual urges between psychotherapy patients and their therapists have been an endless source of confusion and misconceptions for those involved with emotional healing. This accessible text offers fresh perspectives and principles of technique for how best to handle expressions of love and sexual desire in the course of a therapy experience.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Taking the Measure of Love.- The Strong and Weak Adaptive Approaches.- Patient-Love: The Literature.- Two Approaches to Patient-Love.- Therapist-love: The Literature.- Love is the Puppet, Death the Puppeteer.- Patients' Loving and Wishing to be Loved.- Love and the Psychotherapist.- The Search for True Love.

O autorze

ROBERT LANGS, M.D., is Visiting Scholar at the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent's College, London, UK, and a practicing Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist in New York. He is the author of nearly 50 books for the profession and general public on dreams, psychotherapy, unconscious communication, a science of the mind, emotional life and related topics, including with Palgrave Macmillan, Fundamentals of Adaptive Psychotherapy and Counselling (2004).