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NEW BOOK!

'Love and Death in Psychotherapy'

by Robert Langs M.D.

Special 30% Discount for ESCP Members!

We are pleased to offer members of the ESCP a 30% discount on Robert Langs' new book 'Love and Death in Psychotherapy' when ordered over the Palgrave.com website before 31st October 2006. (Please note, this site covers orders from customers in UK, Europe and Rest Of World only - excluding USA/Canada and Australia/New Zealand.)

If members would like to take to take advantage of this offer, they need to contact ESCP through the ‘Contact Us’ button on this web site where they will be given a special promotion code. Members should then go to the following link for more information about the book and to order a copy: http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403936021 Members should click on the 'Order this title' button to start the ordering process. At the 'CheckOut' stage, they will be asked "if you have a specific promo code for this title please insert it in this space". Members then add the promo code previously sent to them . The 30% will then be discounted at the next stage.

This discount code is available to the members of the ESCP exclusively and is not available to members of the general public in any way

Members might also be interested in ordering the recent definitive text by Robert Langs 'Fundamentals of Adaptive Psychotherapy and Counselling' . The URL for this book is: http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403903425 (Unfortunately no discount is available on this.)

Love and Death in Psychotherapy

by Robert Langs M.D.

London and New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006.

Feelings of love and the experience of sexual urges between psychotherapy patients and their therapists have been an endless source of confusion and misconceptions. By invoking his revolutionary view of the emotion-processing mind, identifying the features of true and false love, showing the enormous influence of death and death anxiety on loving feelings and behaviors, and detailing a new set of technical principles for dealing with these issues, Langs takes our understanding of love in psychotherapy to new heights. In addition, Langs convincingly argues and demonstrates clinically that rather than love in its various forms, death and the three forms of death anxiety it evokes—existential, predatory, and predator—are the fundamental issues in psychotherapy and human life.

With this book and the earlier Fundamentals of Adaptive Psychotherapy and Counseling (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004), the communicative or strong adaptive approach to psychotherapy establishes itself as a basic, universally applicable approach to the human mind, emotional life, and psychological healing which illuminates and informs all forms of emotional healing.

Love and Death in Psychotherapy is a book for all manner of mental health professionals—psychotherapists, counsellors, psychoanalysts, family, couples and group therapists, and the like. It also is intended for psychotherapy patients and general readers.

This wide applicability arises because the book not only revises how we think about love in psychotherapy and everyday life, it also presents newly forged insights into the human mind and life in general and revolutionizes the fields of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. It is a book that will forever change the reader's understanding of himself or herself and of the world as it exists today. It is one of those very rare 'must read-change your life' books.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Taking the Measure of Love
The Strong and Weak Adaptive Approaches
Patient-Love: The Literature
Two Approaches to Patient-Love
Therapist-love: The Literature
Love is the Puppet, Death the Puppeteer
Patients’ Loving and Wishing to be Loved
Love and the Psychotherapist
The Search for True Love

Robert Langs, M.D. is the author of 44 books and some 200 papers on psychotherapy, counselling, and psychoanalysis. He is an Honorary Visiting Fellow with the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent’s College, London.

To read more about this book, click here.

Books, tutorials and essays!

Unintelligent Design

An evocative and thought-provoking new article

by Robert Langs, M.D.

Click here to read it.

A recent book by Robert Langs, M.D.

Fundamentals of Adaptive Psychotherapy and Counselling

by Robert Langs, M.D.

An updated description of the essence of the Communicative Approach.

Click here for more details.

Where is psychotherapy going?

An exciting, thought-provoking and fundamental challenge to psychotherapy. More

Revising the Deep Unconscious System and Strong Adaptive Techniques

by Robert Langs, M.D.

Click here to read it.

What is the Communicative Approach?

An updated description of the essence of the Communicative Approach.

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Why the CA is Important to You

A tutorial describing why the Communicative Approach is relevant and important to you.

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Trigger Decoding

An tutorial by Robert Langs, M.D.

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The Death Anxiety, Unconscious Morality, and Extremes of Violence

An essay by Robert Langs, M.D.

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Ground Rules in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life

An essay by Robert Langs, M.D.

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How Psychotherapy Really works - When and If It Does

by Robert Langs, M.D.

The first of two essays that deal candidly with how therapy works and what therapy can and cannot accomplish.

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The second of two essays that deal candidly with how therapy works and what therapy can and cannot accomplish.

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Three Forms of Death Anxiety

An essay by Robert Langs, M.D.

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Gods and Buddhism Come to the Communicative Approach

An essay by Robert Langs, M.D.

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PUBLICATIONS, etc

The Master Terrorist of Emotional Life by Robert Langs, M.D.

An essay by Robert Langs, M.D.

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"The Fundamentals of Adaptive Psychotherapy and Counseling: Theory and Practice

The introductory chapter from Robert Langs forthcoming new book to be published by Palgrave Macmillian, called "The Fundamentals of Adaptive Psychotherapy and Counseling: Theory and Practice." Click here for more information.

A further chapter from the same new book by Robert Langs describing the communicative technique and practice of starting with a new client and having the first therapy session. Click here

Updated Bibliography

A new and updated version of Communicative literature to be found in the 'Bibliography' section. Click here.

Other recent items

Glossary of Communicative Psychotherapy terms

This is a valuable glossary of Communicative Psychotherapy terms. If you have any additions or other suggestions, please let us know at glossary@escp.org.

Click here to go to the Glossary.

An internet Chatroom and discussion forum for those interested in the Communicative Approach to Psychotherapy.

Click here to find out more!

Death Anxiety, Unconscious Morality, and Extremes of Violence

An essay by Robert Langs, M.D.

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"Communicative Psychoanalysis With Children"

A new book by V. A. Bonac. A practical text for the child therapist, the book introduces fundamental changes to the treatment of patients of all ages. More

"Working communicatively with children"

A thought-provoking article by Constantinos Fissas. More

The Frog and Swan

A gripping one-act play by Robert Langs. Imagine what happens when the female therapist finds that her new date is - unbeknown to her - an ex-client. More

Story and Mystery

The stories we tell one another, the dreams we dream, contain hidden meanings. Fiorella Gatti-Doyle reveals these, and shows that they are rich in wisdom. More

A Just Peace for the Freud Wars

An essay by Robert Langs. More

A message from Robert Langs

Robert Langs, M.D., Founder of the Communicative Approach provides a message to anyone interested in the Communicative Approach. More

Psychotherapy and Science

A significant book by Robert Langs discussing his thoughts on how psychotherapy must embrace a scientific foundation. More

Articles related to Communicative Psychotherapy 

The ESCP is pleased to include the above collection of articles related to the subject of communicative psychotherapy. The ESCP would welcome any further contributions from any Member for inclusion in this web site.

Please send any submissions to: article@escp.org