Therapeutic Love and Heartfullness: Meanderings Through Group Analysis, Group Analytic Art Therapy and Individual Therapy
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 288
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Group Psychotherapy - Catalogue No : 98016
- ISBN 13 : 9781032881935
- ISBN 10 : 1032881933
Reviews and Endorsements
This book is a very helpful and accessible account of the processes involved in group therapy. Gerry's warmth and humour, as well as his therapeutic understanding and long experience of leading groups, make this book a very useful addition to the appreciation of the benefits of group therapy.
Judith Barford
Therapeutic Love and Heartfullness by Gerry McNeilly is a fantastic book, essential for any psychotherapist, regardless of their foundational training, whether or not they are connected to Art Therapy. Drawing on Gerry's connection with Group Analysis, the book addresses essential concepts related to the specificities of communication and emerging phenomenology in group, individual, and creative (art therapy) contexts. In an eloquent and courageous manner, Gerry McNeilly explores the therapist's affectionateness as a participating agent in the therapeutic relational process. Innovatively, he introduces the concept of Therapeutic Love and its contribution to the heartfullness of the psychotherapeutic experience, particularly in the context of artistic creation.
Ruy Carvalho, doctor, art psychotherapist, founder and president, Board of the Portuguese Society of Art Therapy (SPAT)