Loving Kindness in Psychotherapy

This book explores the way in which loving kindness, contained within professional boundaries of practice, is essential to the building of trust necessary to the psychotherapy relationship.

Heather Reeves works in private psychotherapy practice in Norwich, UK. Her interest in loving kindness arose from her work with people from diverse backgrounds, facing difficulties in physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual domains.

1. The Nature of Loving Kindness 2. Expressions of Loving Kindness in Psychotherapy 3. False Friends of Loving Kindness: The Symbiotic Merger and Sentimentality 4. Loving Kindness and Moral Injury 5. The Shadow Side of Loving Kindness 6. Loving Kindness and Difficulties of Engagement in Psychotherapy 7. Loving Kindness and the Question of Suffering in Pandemic Times 8. A Philosophical Basis for Loving Kindness in Psychotherapy