Love: Bondage or Liberation?: A Psycholological Exploration of the Meaning, Values and Dangers of Falling in Love
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2010
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 208
- Category :
Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy - Catalogue No : 25498
- ISBN 13 : 9781855755109
- ISBN 10 : 1855755106
Reviews and Endorsements
'What is love? Since neither philosophers, psychotherapists, even biologists, can provide a complete answer, do not expect Deirdre Johnson's book to do so. But that is what I love about it. Drawing upon a host of psychotherapeutic, literary and other sources, the author demonstrates in her theme precisely what she describes in her final words: "...love is more than any feeling; more than sexual attraction or primal instinct; more even than the longing of the soul for the divine. It is all these things and also more. It will always remain ineffable, but, as Eros, it manifests as an indefinable energy that binds our disparate inner selves into a coherent whole, that binds each individual self to society, and that binds humanity to the universe that we inhabit."'
- Michael Jacobs, author of Psychodynamic Counselling in Action, Our Desire of Unrest and Shakespeare on the Couch