Loving the patient as the basis for treatment.
The author's conviction is that a successful treatment is based on feelings of love by the therapist/analyst toward his or her patients. One should differentiate between love that is based on biological erotic-sexual drives and emotional love without erotic biological drive. The treatment process, especially for severely disturbed personalities, should be regarded as a process of new birth and new kind of development. Thus what the patient needs most is a kind of parental "primary love" (according to Balint). This paper presents a full report of a session through which the basic love to the patient is illustrated as enabling the treatment.
Cohen
Yecheskiel
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Israeli Psychoanalytic Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association, Jerusalem, Israel. coheny@netvision.net.il
D003379:Countertransference; D006801:Humans; D008149:Love; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy