Love. An Impossible Desire?

Dirk De Wachter

160 x 210 mm | 112 pages | 30,000 words full colour illustrations | paperback all rights available An original approach to a widely discussed and popular subject Avoiding clichés and obvious statements

Dirk De Wachter's titles have already sold more than 150,000 copies

Love is the most frequently used theme in works of literature, music or visual arts. Still, mankind continues to search for its true nature. We think we are able to define and understand the concept of love, but in fact we are not up to par. Love is as vital as it is unfathomable.

Sadly, love is threatened in its very existence by modern consumerism and the harmful illusion that all things can be manufactured and tailored to our needs. Even a therapist turns love into something banal, presuming to be able to measure it and to treat it in just a few sessions. Love, however, cannot be defined so easily.

Love. An Impossible Desire? is a plea for normal behaviour. Only then can love work its powers: multilayered, mysterious and paradoxical.

Dirk De Wachter is a psychiatrist-psychotherapist and head of systemic and family therapy at the University Psychiatric Centre, KU Leuven. He has written the bestsellers Borderline Times, Love. An Impossible Desire? and The World of De Wachter.

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