ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that love can be manifested in socially negotiated processes. It deals with the notion of love as an attitude within these processes or a stance that therapists take in the world and explores the implications for the context of therapy. The opposite of love is indifference and the counterpart to love is hate. This love–hate–indifference triangle is very simple, deliberately over simple. While M. K. Gandhi considered love to be the strongest force in the world, necessary for the existence of the universe. Love as a social process certainly is worthy of more attention, clarification, and development. Social processes and practices can be contemplated in relation to the love–hate–indifference triangle. Therapy is a space where the client and therapist engage with each other's stances of love, hate, and indifference. Therapy practice that encompasses the social and political realms is increasingly theorised and discussed.
