Working from the Heart advocates for a deeper understanding that the therapist's expressions of non-sexual, non-romantic love are a core ingredient in effective psychotherapy. From a heart-centered perspective it provides therapists with ways of helping their patients forgive th…
When therapists work in a heart-centered way, they feel freer to be both professional and loving human beings. Working from the Heart shows that a therapist's expressions of nonsexual, nonromantic love area core ingredient in effective psychotherapy. Using a heart-centered persp…
In Why It Is Good to be Good, John H. Riker argues that modernity, by undermining traditional religious and metaphysical grounds for moral belief, has left itself no way to explain why it is personally good to be a morally good person. Furthermore, modernity's regnant concept of…
"John H. Riker's book is very compelling, original, and well argued. Quite a tour de force! His idea is very powerful, one that hopefully will stimulate a lot of discussion both within and outside of psychoanalysis."--Frank Summers, PhD, author of Self Creation: Psychoanalytic T…
