Therapeutic Love and Heartfullness: Meanderings Through Group Analysis, Group Analytic Art Therapy and Individual Therapy - Paperback

by Gerry McNeilly (Author)

This book introduces the concepts of "therapeutic love" and "heartfullness," combining models of group analysis, art therapy, and individual psychotherapy to present a new psychotherapeutic framework where non-erotic love is engendered and evoked within therapeutic encounters.

Author Biography

Gerry McNeilly is a trained specialist in art therapy, psychotherapy and group analysis. Following art therapy training in 1976, he was the principal art therapist at the Ingrebourne Centre and 'Full Member' of the Institute of Group Analysis from 1987. He established and directed a psychotherapy and counselling service in Bromsgrove, England and was the principal adult psychotherapist in Warwickshire from 1995 to 2011. He is an active member of the teaching body of the Portuguese Society of Art Therapy and also the originator of Group Analytic Art Therapy. Although now retired, he still undertakes some lecturing and academic involvement.