At the center of this book is the question of how to cultivate the courage and freedom to love in psychotherapy. In a time when love seems to be fading and hatred and despair appear to be on the rise, Stephen Gilligan presents love as a skill and a power capable of healing, calming, guiding, and encouraging. According to Gilligan's approach, psychotherapy is a conversation about difference and opposition. When these differences are met with violence or indifference, problems arise. Solutions, on the other hand, emerge from the ability to love. In addition to the theoretical and ethical principles of a psychotherapy of self-relationship, the author outlines the fundamental practices for its implementation.