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.
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.
1Taking the measure of love12The strong and weak adaptive approaches263Patient-love : the literature414Two approaches to patient-love525Therapist-love : the literature676Love is the puppet, death the puppeteer837Patients' loving and wishing to be loved1068Love and the psychotherapist1359The search for true love165