Sigmund Freud noted the importance of love in the healing of the human psyche. So many of life's distresses have their origins in lack of love, disruption of love, or trauma. People naturally seek love in their lives to feel complete. Is therapy a substitute for love? Or is it love by another name? 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. This book offers explorations of the complexity of love from different modalities: psychoanalytic, humanistic, person-centred, psychosexual, family and systemic, transpersonal, existential, and transcultural. The discussions challenge therapists and other allied professionals to think about their practice, ethics, and boundaries.

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Cover
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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

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