Citation

Gerrard J. Br. J. Psychother. 1996; 13(2): 163-173.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1752-0118.1996.tb00873.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper examines the hypothesis that patients need to arouse the loving feelings of their psychotherapists in order to reach a sense of their own lovableness and capacities for loving. The history of love in the countertransference is reviewed and two kinds of love are described, leading to the idea that secondary love arises out of primary love. Examples of work with three patients demonstrate clinically various ways in which the therapist's loving feelings are reached.