316 Pages
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Routledge
320 Pages
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Routledge
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Love and hate seem to be the dominant emotions that make the world go round and are a central theme in psychotherapy. Love and Hate seeks to answer some important questions about these all consuming passions. Many patients seeking psychotherapy feel unlovable or full of rage and hate. What is it that interferes with the capacity to experience love? This book explores the origins of love and... Read more
In Search of Love and Hate. Love - Paradox of Self and Other. The Capacity for Love. Love and Hate in the Analytic Encounter with a Woman Therapist. Love, Hate and Personality. 'The Origins of Love and Hate' Revisited. Freeing Eros in the Playroom of Therapy - The Interface of Hate and Love: Sexualisation, Abstinence and the 'Celibate' Countertransference. The Importance of Being Able to Be Hated as a Pre-requisite for Love. Misanthropy and the Broken Mirror of Narcissism - Hatred in the Narcissistic Personality. The Mother's Hatred and the Ugly Child. Love and Hate in the Therapeutic Encounter. "When Love Begins to Play a Role, There are only Disputes and Hatred" - Confusion and Limits in the Treatment of Narcissistic Patients. No-one to Hold the Baby - The Traumatized Individuals Incapacity to Love. The Love/Hate Couple in the Primal Scene - The Problem of Dyads and Triads in Relationship Therapy. Love and Hate: A Fusion of Opposites - A Window to the Soul. Following in the Footsteps of Ferenczi, Balint and Winnicott: Love and Hate in a Setting Open to Body - and Action - Related Interventions.
Biography
David Mann is a psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in private practice and in the NHS, where he is Principle Psychotherapist at the Tunbridge Wells Psychotherapy Service
