[Love is all around? - On dealing with eroticism and infatuation in three different psychotherapeutic approaches]. / Love is all around? ­ Über den Umgang mit Erotik und Verliebtheit in drei verschiedenen Therapieschulen: Ein Scoping Review.

How do therapists react when their patients or they themselves develop erotic feelings in the therapeutic setting? Conceptual differences of different therapy approaches (psychoanalytic therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered therapy), specific attitudes of therapists and possibilities of intervention will be shown. The literature search in several databases revealed that in comparison to the abundance of psychoanalytic literature on the topic, little (but relevant) information can be found in the two other approaches. These publications point to the regular occurrence of feelings of infatuation in behavioral therapy and client-centered psychotherapy and to a need to engage with the topic as therapists. The consensus of the publications presented here is that therapists want to accept and work with feelings of infatuation in patients and in themselves, while maintaining abstinence. It is considered especially important not to shame disclosing patients by rejecting them. Treatment discontinuation should be avoided whenever possible. More research on erotic feelings in behavioral and client-centered psychotherapy is encouraged, as well as ideas for education and training.

Amor, luto e psicanálise / Love, mourning and psychoanalysis

Neste ensaio, desenvolvo algumas conjecturas sobre os muito estudados talentos de Eros para vincular objetos, emoções e ideias, assim como sobre a operação do amor no setting da psicanálise. A meu ver, uma das principais tarefas do psicanalista, por meio da própria oscilação constante entre “paciência” e ”segurança” (entre as posições esquizoparanoides e depressivas, em Bion), resulta na mútua elaboração das sucessivas perdas que todos os indivíduos diariamente sofrem. Entendo, dessa forma, o fardo do amor [contra(trans)ferencial] em psicanálise como propiciando um continente adequado para a vivência de lutos compartilhados, assim como pela sua qualidade de não apenas criar, como ainda cortar laços.(AU)

In the present essay the author develops her conjectures about the extensively explored powers of Eros to engender links among objects, emotions, ideas and the effectiveness of love in the psychoanalytic setting. The author understands that one of the main tasks of the psychoanalyst lies in working-through his own unceasing alternation between “patience” and “security” (Bion) so as to realize, with the patient, the succession of losses every human being encounters in daily life. In this way, one of burdens of [counter(trans)ferencial] love in psychoanalysis is to serve as a container for an experience of shared mourning by its ability to link and, as importantly, to sever links.(AU)

Amor, luto e psicanálise / Love, mourning and psychoanalysis

Neste ensaio, desenvolvo algumas conjecturas sobre os muito estudados talentos de Eros para vincular objetos, emoções e ideias, assim como sobre a operação do amor no setting da psicanálise. A meu ver, uma das principais tarefas do psicanalista, por meio da própria oscilação constante entre “paciência” e ”segurança” (entre as posições esquizoparanoides e depressivas, em Bion), resulta na mútua elaboração das sucessivas perdas que todos os indivíduos diariamente sofrem. Entendo, dessa forma, o fardo do amor [contra(trans)ferencial] em psicanálise como propiciando um continente adequado para a vivência de lutos compartilhados, assim como pela sua qualidade de não apenas criar, como ainda cortar laços.

In the present essay the author develops her conjectures about the extensively explored powers of Eros to engender links among objects, emotions, ideas and the effectiveness of love in the psychoanalytic setting. The author understands that one of the main tasks of the psychoanalyst lies in working-through his own unceasing alternation between “patience” and “security” (Bion) so as to realize, with the patient, the succession of losses every human being encounters in daily life. In this way, one of burdens of [counter(trans)ferencial] love in psychoanalysis is to serve as a container for an experience of shared mourning by its ability to link and, as importantly, to sever links.