This important book looks at the place of love in therapy and whether it is the curative factor. The authors continually stress, however, that within psychotherapy both ethical and professional boundaries should govern this 'Love' at all times in order for it to be experienced as healing and therapeutic.

UKCP Series Preface , Foreword , Introduction , What has love to do with it? , Love and its shadows: an existential view , Humanistic and transpersonal perspectives on love , Psychoanalytic perspectives of love , Love: psychosexual perspectives , Physical love , Love, separation, and reconciliation: systemic theory and its relationship with emotions , Working with children: the importance of love , The place of love in crisis support , Transcultural perspectives and themes on love and hate: the yin and yang of relationships , Memento mori and carpe diem: love and death , Love: retaking a stance , Therapy and neuroscience: what has the L-word to do with it? , Afterword