The Courage to Love: Principles and Practices of Self-Relations Psychotherapy

The Courage to Love: Principles and Practices of Self-Relations Psychotherapy
ISBN-10
0393702472
ISBN-13
9780393702477
Series
The Courage to Love
Category
Psychology
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
1997-05-17
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Author
Stephen Gilligan

Description

This is a book about how psychotherapy may be used to cultivate the courage and freedom to love. In a time when love seems to be fading and hatred and despair rising, it presents love as a skill and force that can heal and invigorate, reconnect and guide, calm and encourage. In Gilligan's self-relations approach, psychotherapy is a conversation about competing differences. When these differences are treated violently or indifferently, problems arise; solutions develop when the skills of love are practiced. Those practical skills are described here, with an emphasis on postconventional ethics, Buddhist and aikido principles, and ideas of human sponsorship.

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