Therapeutic Love and Heartfullness

Meanderings Through Group Analysis, Group Analytic Art Therapy and Individual Therapy
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-88193-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 233 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 456 g

This book introduces the concepts of 'therapeutic love' and 'heartfullness,' combining models of group analysis, art therapy and individual psychotherapy to present a new psychotherapeutic framework where non-erotic love is engendered and evoked within therapeutic encounters.

The heart has often been conceptualised as symbolic of sexuality and eroticism, with little meaning beyond the romantic, and therefore often removed from psychotherapeutic perspectives. Responding to this, the author calls for placing the heart as the central point of reference in therapeutic work, emphasising how it is touched during a therapeutic session. This, in turn, gives way for the therapist’s own emotions and thoughts, such as empathy, identification, concern, protectiveness and laughter, to be released.

Building upon the author’s 40 years of experience in practice and new developments in these models, this book ‘meanders’ through evolving theories and integrates them for both patients and trainees across backgrounds and cultures. Enriched with the author’s personal clinical vignettes and unique influences of music, art, golf and even Ireland, this book aims to give a greater voice to the patient – and their heart – within the therapeutic space.

This book is essential reading for any counsellor, therapist or analyst and offers a new way of looking at therapeutic endeavours across methodologies in all their simplicities and complexities.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcneilly, Gerry

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Familientherapie, Paartherapie, Gruppentherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART 1 Introduction 1.Setting The Scene 2. Three Models and One Synthesis 3. Specifics in Therapeutic Love and Heartfullness 4. 'Meanderings Through Literature' 5. Reflections and Art Therapy Perspectives 6. Individual Psychotherapy CHAPTERS 7–10 ‘Group Analysis – Primarily Verbal’ 7. Overview 8. Early Period 9. Middle Stages of Development 10. The Closing Years 11. Convergence PART 2 The Gap 12. Mind The Gap 13. The Thoughts I Threw Away 14. Outside The Consulting Room 15. The Lighter Side 16. Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Gerry McNeilly is a trained specialist in art therapy, psychotherapy and group analysis. Following art therapy training in 1976, he was the principal art therapist at the Ingrebourne Centre and ‘Full Member’ of the Institute of Group Analysis from 1987. He established and directed a psychotherapy and counselling service in Bromsgrove, England and was the principal adult psychotherapist in Warwickshire from 1995 to 2011. He is an active member of the teaching body of the Portuguese Society of Art Therapy and also the originator of Group Analytic Art Therapy. Although now retired, he still undertakes some lecturing and academic involvement.