Fundamentally, giving love can be neither a technique nor a device. It must be as genuine and sincere in psychotherapy as in ordinary human experience. No therapist can make up for the early lack of love in a patient's childhood. Overindulgence may deter aggressive acts, but will never cure their causes. First, the patient must be made able to receive love as love. In child therapy, the therapist may give as abundantly as he pleases, provided that giving is genuine and does not exceed his capacity. When eventually a child actually begins to ask for love, he is also near to being capable of giving and near to being cured.