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In Divine Therapy, subtitled Love, Mysticism and Psychoanalysis, Janet Sayers aims to bring to our attention the central place of love in the process of psychotherapy. She organizes our attention around two focal points: what she sees as the role of love in the lives of some well-known psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and related personages, and what she sees as the role of love in their theories of what goes on between therapist and patient.
Discussing love is undeniably a formidable task, in some ways made more difficult by the preconceptions we psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapists bring to the discussion. It is therefore practical for Janet Sayers to look at a number of eminent people operating in this field, with a special interest in the place of love in their lives: William James, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Melanie Klein, Marion Milner, Erich Fromm, Paul Tillich, Wilfred Bion, Simone Weil, Donald Winnicott, Viktor Frankl, Julia Kristeva. I found the biographical information about each of them very interesting, and it will induce me to look at them in more detail and depth soon. Of course, this one book could not contain all that might be relevant: