‘…But when did love not try to change……The world back to itself..‘
-Philip Larkin
This workshop explores the unique attitude towards love which is offered in psychodynamic/analytic psychotherapy. This attitude is intimate and reaches the core of the human personality. It is the bedrock of human relationships and the therapeutic professions, the ‘building block ‘ that makes relationships bind, the ‘catalyst’ which can transform human beings. It can mitigate destructive and hateful feelings.
Freud stated that the aim of therapeutic work would be a better capacity to love and work.
Jung wrote of mystical union and spirituality, a welcome deviation from reductive thinking.
Klein stressed the importance of love in the resolution of envy, greed and destructiveness.
What is love, according to psychodynamic therapy ? How does it work ? In this workshop attendees will explore and reaffirm :
The meaning of love and its functions.
The relation of love (or its absence) to hate, perversion and violence
How love in its ordinary and resilient form can overcome isolation and perversive modes of behaviour.
How and why love is eroded/devalued.
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I am a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice.