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'This thoughtful book manages the difficult task of talking about loving kindness in psychotherapy with clarity and compassion but without sentimentality. The breadth of disciplines it draws on means that readers will find themselves challenged to see things from a different perspective and will be both absorbed and moved.' Penelope Campling, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, author of Intelligent Kindness and Don't Turn Away 'Loving Kindness in Psychotherapy is a welcome addition to contemporary thinking about psychotherapy. Expanding on a century-old debate - originating in the contrasting views of Freud and Ferenczi - about the healing role of love in the psychotherapeutic relationship, it gets to the heart of the therapeutic enterprise.' Rabbi Howard Cooper, psychoanalytic psychotherapist 'Following contemporary neuroscience, Heather Reeves suggests that loving kindness has the potential to protect and heal us and is essential in psychotherapy. Theory, research, philosophical ideas and examples from literature and clinical practice are skilfully woven together, offering a refreshing and engaging new perspective.' Gill Westland, body psychotherapist, author of Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication in Psychotherapy

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Heather Reeves works in private psychotherapy practice in Norwich, UK. Her interest in loving kindness arose from her work with people from diverse backgrounds, facing difficulties in physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual domains.

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