Loving Our Clients: Can We Share All The Fruits?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.65828/mrnx7v28Keywords:
Love, ethics, Kierkegaard, Plato, agape, eros, choice, emotionAbstract
How can therapists love clients ethically? Kierkegaard, Plato and other philosophers suggest some forms of love are better than others. I argue that elevating a chosen agape over a given eros is ontologically confused. All forms of loving our clients reveal something helpful, and ethically we can be aware and beware.
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