The Courage to Love: Principles and Practices of Self-Relations Psychotherapy

About this book

This is a book about how psychotherapy may be used to cultivate the courage and freedom to love. In a time when love seems to be fading and hatred and despair rising it presents love as a skill and force that can heal and invigorate reconnect and guide calm and encourage. In Gilligans self-relations approach psychotherapy is a conversation about competing differences. When these differences are treated violently or indifferently problems arise; solutions develop when the skills of love are practiced. Those practical skills are described here with an emphasis on postconventional ethics Buddhist and aikido principles and ideas of human sponsorship.