Love and Death in Psychotherapy

by Robert Langs

Overview

Feelings of love between patients and their therapists have been an endless source of confusion for those involved. An essential reading for all counselling and psychotherapy students and practitioners, this text offers fresh perspectives and advice on how best to deal with expressions of love and sexual desires in the course of therapy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350305519
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	06/23/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	308 KB

About the Author

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).
ROBERT LANGS is Honorary Visiting Fellow with the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent's College, London, UK.

Table of Contents

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.