Love and Its Disappointment

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ISBN: 9781846942099 | 1846942098
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/23/2009

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In Love and Its disappointment, which is rooted in common knowledge, David Brazier advances in clear and specific terms a radical and practical theory of human functioning, exploring the relationships between beauty and love, frustration and creativity, perception and healing.

The Theory In Context
Therapy, Love and Art	p. 1
Theory	p. 6
Other Centredness in Brief	p. 10
The Influence of Carl Rogers
The Theories of Carl Rogers	p. 13
The Concerns of Rogers' followers	p. 15
Origin of Theory that the Necessary Condition is Love	p. 18
Love Drive and the Actualising Tendency	p. 21
Ego, Libido and Esteem Theory	p. 26
Sublimation
Redirection or Highest Fulfilment	p. 31
Defeat and the Fullness of Love	p. 33
Philosophical Note	p. 35
The Nature of Esteem
Unconditionality-For Nothing	p. 37
To Feel Alive	p. 42
Esteem	p. 45
Expression of Esteem	p. 48
Disappointment of Love
Love Meets with Obstacles	p. 50
The Neglected Child	p. 54
False Guilt	p. 55
Obstacles Though Life	p. 57
Rogerian Ambivalence Concerning Education	p. 60
Ideas of Self esteem, Self love and Self regard	p. 64
Art, Culture & Spirit
Esteem Theory and Cultural Appreciation
The Happy Artist and the Troubled Artist	p. 68
T.S.Eliot	p. 69
Saigyo	p. 70
Sincerity in Art	p. 71
Art and Goodness	p. 74
Art as Imitation	p. 76
Esteem and Spirituality
The Story of the Samurai Tadatsumi	p. 78
The Story of the Prostitute of Muro	p. 79
Sustaining Love	p. 82
Love as Moral Progress
Non Arrival: Progress Toward Perfect Love	p. 83
Singularity of the Love Object	p. 87
Happiness is Not the Goal	p. 93
The Question of Tragedy	p. 95
Developing Theory & Practice
Love and Different Kinds of Esteem	p. 97
Expression of Love in a Tradition	p. 99
Object Relations
The Client's Natural Flow	p. 101
The Self is a Function of Other Regard	p. 104
Object Centred Response	p. 106
Object Centred Enquiry	p. 110
The Pain of Love and Defending Against it	p. 114
Dimensions of Love	p. 117
Recognising Lovability: Perceiving and discerning lovable features in the other	p. 118
Enduring Esteem: Carrying an attitude within oneself of positive esteem toward the other	p. 119
Truth and Mystery: Respect for the other as a being who, while independent of oneself in many ways, is, as oneself, subject to conditions beyond personal control	p. 120
Otherness: Recognising that the other is indeed other	p. 121
Dimensions of Love Lacking as Diagnostic Categories
Enmeshment	p. 125
Disrespect	p. 127
Dishonesty, Resentment & Bitterness	p. 128
Inability to perceive what is lovable in the Other	p. 129
Issues of Transference & Technique
Aesthetic Distance and Oestrostasis	p. 130
A Protocol for Object Related Therapy	p. 132
Transference: Therapist as Object
The Idea of Transference	p. 135
The Transference Controversy in the Person-Centred
Approach	p. 138
Transference as a Transition to (Re-)Loving	p. 141
Building Character	p. 143
Grief and Contrition	p. 146
Esteem Between Therapist and Client
Modelling and Imitation	p. 149
Response Learning	p. 150
Techniqueless Therapy?
The Impotence of Technique	p. 154
Technique Nonetheless	p. 157
Staleness and Technique	p. 162
In Conclusion, A Glimpse of the Meaning of Life	p. 167
Bibliography	p. 176
Glossary	p. 181
Index	p. 186
Internet Access	p. 199
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