This important original work provides the concept of therapy as a loving interaction. The therapist must decline being neutral, anonymous and dispassionate and accept being part of a mutually loving process. (177 pp.)
Download Author: Natterson, Joseph, MD
Joseph Natterson is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with many years of teaching, writing and practicing. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,Emeritus, at UCLA. He is Training and Supervising analyst at the New Center for Psychoanalysis, in Los Angeles. Also, he is Consultant to the Maple Counseling Center, Beverly Hills, California.
Dr. Natterson is a native of West Virginia, where he received his primary and secondary education. He attended West Virginia University and Duke University. And he earned his MD at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Natterson studied psychoanalysis at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, where he received a PhD in psychoanalysis.
Over the years, Dr. N has made important original contributions to the field of psychotherapy. His book, Beyond Countertransference, was an early study of the role of the therapist’s subjectivity in the therapeutic process.
Through his published work on enactments, the author has elucidated the crucial interrelationship of the intrapsychic and the intersubjective in analytic psychotherapy.
More recently, he has focused on love as the fundamental propulsive force in psychotherapy. Out of his investigations of love, he has formulated the concept of the loving self. He defines psychotherapy as a mutually loving process that actualizes the loving self. And this loving self, he avers, is the optimal self state of our post modern era.
Just as relationality and intersubjectivity have swept through our field, the author demonstrates that love is an indispensable part the relational and intersubjective orientation.
