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The Origins of Love and Hate: Ian D. Suttie

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Penelope Campling  and
Mary Morton
Penelope Campling
Affiliation:
Francis Dixon Lodge, Therapeutic Community, Gypsy Lane, Leicester
Mary Morton
Affiliation:
Humberstone Grange Clinic, Thurmaston Lane, Leicester
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Issues of love and hate underpin our work as psychiatrists and psychotherapists, informing our attitudes and decisions. Stories of love and hate abound with our patients, perhaps even more starkly now than in the clinics of Suttie's day, with increasingly common revelations of childhood physical and sexual abuse, often perpetrated by parents. Helping patients to deal with extremes of love and hate is fundamental to the process as well as the content of therapy, and even the most biologically-minded colleagues must at times wonder why particular patients sabotage every attempt to care for them, why some patients attract superhuman efforts from nursing staff, and why some patients seem to get under our skin when others leave us feeling cold and unsympathetic.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 166 , Issue 3 , March 1995 , pp. 406 - 408
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Copyright © 1995 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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Suttie, I. D. (1935) The Origins of Love and Hate. London: Kegan Paul.Google Scholar
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