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We Do Not Accept People Being Hungry or Starving.

What About For Love?

Not only would most therapists find it totally unacceptable to have a patient be hungry or starving, they would immediately take steps to help that patient get the proper nourishment they need. That would be the focus, knowing that counseling would not be effective until that basic need was satisfied. (Maslow)

This was the warning Dr. Mitch Prinstein, Chief Science Officer of the APA, sent to 157,000 members of the American Psychological Association; “If we want to build a mental health system that can address the nation's mental health crisis, we can't afford to do more of the same.”

How have you and the psychological community responded to his call?

Erich Fromm, in his The Art of Loving, wrote “…human beings are starved for Love. Even though most therapists would agree with this observation, no one has explained how, why, or the solution to have clients, and people in general, be able to acquire more love in their lives. Self-esteem, self-compassion, self-respect, are all going in the right direction but are only a small part of a larger picture. Love it turns out, is an essential nourishment like air, food, and water, which is why conditional love hurts so much, and why people are desperate to find others who will supply this nourishment to them. Of course, it has nothing to do with romance – there is not such a thing as romantic love, there is only attraction