Integral Love
The Role of Love in Clinical Practice as a Rite of Passage
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9020607 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D B Sleeth (Lake County Mental Health Department, Lakeport, CA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 471-494 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-29 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Humanistic Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1678 • E-ISSN: 1552-650X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022167810361970 |
| OpenAlex | W2114963711 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 22 |
The profession of psychology seems embarrassed, even apprehensive, about love being part of the therapeutic process. Yet the essence of treatment comes down to a single precept: Love is the healing principle. When people speak of recovery in clinical practice, that which is recovered is best thought of as love. Unfortunately, love is poorly understood. People tend to align with either of its two main forms, autistic love or empathetic love, where each vies for dominion as the respective pole of a seemingly inexorable paradox. Consequently, the developmental task of treatment is to integrate these two poles into their most mature and auspicious form: integral love. Only when all forms of love are taken together can clinical practice operate within a shared framework of understanding, ever working toward a deeper and more profound embrace of the whole person
Agape · Epistemology · Management · Philosophy of love · Precept · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Rite · Sociology · Task (project management · Theology · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Child Welfare and Adoption · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.2 |
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| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |