“Psychoanalysis, Freud once said, is a cure through love…. The individual I is, in his essence, a response to love” (Lear, 1990, pp. 27, 219). Put somewhat differently, love can be thought of as the specific tool of therapy: “After all research on psychotherapy is accounted for, psychotherapy still resolves itself into a relationship best subsumed by the word love” (Burton, 1967, pp. 102-103). Gordon Allport drew similar conclusions nearly sixty years ago: “Love is incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent” (1950, p. 80).
From: INTEGRAL THERAPY: Love is the Healing Principle,
Mindfulness and “Radical” Non-Dualism and Their Relevancy for Clinical Practice
by D. B. Sleeth, Ph.D.
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