Psychotherapeutic Forms of Love
From Eros to Agape
Recorded Saturday 30 January 2021
With Dr Andrea Celenza, Professor Paul Gilbert, Dr Richard Gipps and Dr Joy Schaverien
CE Credits: 4 hours
This project began with a discussion between people working at Confer on whether love of the client is essential for the therapeutic process to work. Some thought it would be strange if a slowly emerging, intimate experience of deeply knowing another, and being known, did not result in love of some kind. Others wondered how a therapeutic stance of being loving might inhibit the client’s need to use the therapist as a hateful object.
READ MORE...We considered the many forms and representations of love that might arise in the relational field, from maternal tenderness to erotic desire.
We talked about the wider philosophical, theological question of whether love heals, and whether loving can ever be a deliberate project. We thought about love as a product of the therapeutic frame – which makes it safe to give and receive these deep emotions without fear of consequences.
Clearly these questions raise many pathways of enquiry about what constitutes a deep enough emotional engagement for therapy to be therapeutic. In creating the resulting programme, we asked four author-practitioners to speak about love in therapy. The subsequent conversation is not about erotic transference/countertransference – although it does include that – but about the patient as beloved simply by virtue of being human and seen.
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SCHEDULE
00:05:05
Dr Richard Gipps
What’s Love Got To Do With It?
00:53:07
Q&A with Dr Richard Gipps
00:58:51
Dr Andrea Celenza
The Maternal Loving Transference and the Fate of Feminine Signifiers
01:52:49
Q&A with Dr Andrea Celenza
02:00:04
Dr Joy Schaverien
Love and Loss within the Analytic Frame
02:52:16
Q&A with Dr Joy Schaverien
02:59:30
Professor Paul Gilbert
Why Compassion is About Care, Courage and Wisdom
03:47:34
Q&A with Professor Paul Gilbert
03:58:23
All panel Q&A
04:28:55
End