This Thing called Love in Life and in the Consulting Room

Authors

  • Patrick Casement

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1234/fa.v0i81-82.387

Keywords:

psychoanalysis, love, therapy

Abstract

One reason for choosing the title for this paper is because there has often been an idea that what may be curative about therapy is not so much the benefits of interpretation but a patient's sense of being loved by the therapist. Let's think about this some more.

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Published

2021-05-10

How to Cite

Casement, P. (2021). This Thing called Love in Life and in the Consulting Room. Free Associations, (81-82), 106–118. https://doi.org/10.1234/fa.v0i81-82.387

Issue

No. 81-82 (2021)

Section

Treats and Treatments

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