List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The desire for love and hate (by way of a poetic polemic)

David Mann

PART I More about love than hate

In search of love and hate

David Mann

Love: paradox of self and other

Hester Mcfarland Solomon

The capacity for love

Sue Gottlieb

Love and hate in the analytic encounter with a woman therapist

Lesley Murdin

`The way you wear your hat'. Love, hate and personality

Kate Barrows

The Origins of Love and Hate revisited

Sheila Gordon

Freeing Eros in the playroom of therapy. The interface of hate and love: sexualisation, abstinence and `celibate' countertransference

Robert C. Ware

PART II More about hate than love

The importance of being able to be hated as a prerequisite l-or love

David Morgan

Misanthropy and the broken mirror of narcissism: hatred in the narcissitic personality

David Mann

The mother's hatred and the ugly child

Francesco Bisagni

Love and hate in the therapeutic encounter

Jackie Gerrard

`When love begins to play a role, there are only disputes and hatred': confusion and limits in the treatment of a narcissistic patient

Ingrid Pohl

No one to hold the baby: the traumatised individual's incapacity to love

Daphne Lambert

The love/hate couple in the primal scene: the problem of dyads and triads in relationship therapy

Martin Stanton

Love and hate: a fusion of opposites - a window to the soul

Paola Valerio

Following in the footsteps of Ferenczi, Balint and Winnicott: love and hate in a setting open to body-and action-related interventions

Peter Geilßler

Love, hate and violation

Richard Mizen

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