Abstract

DANTAS, Margarida Florencio. Gestalt therapy in the face of love in heterosexual love relationships. IGT rede [online]. 2011, vol.8, n.14, pp.39-55.  Epub Oct 27, 2025. ISSN 1807-2526.  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15040766.

Initially, studying love may seem easy, but there is some complexity in understanding the implicit feeling concerned, once the individuals feel the love in different ways. Romantic love and erotic love are some of the ways of experiencing love in the heterosexual relationships, where the romantic love represents the serenity, respect, something that is sublime. However, the erotic love represents the sexual practices, which means what is modest, forbidden, immoral, culturally and socially speaking. Such ways of experiencing the love will be charged to individuals according to the social roles they played in their society. This article presents a bibliographical study on the cultural influences in the experiences of loving men and women and how the Gestalt approach considers as the healthiest choice by the way that best suits the way of being of each individual.

Keywords : love; man; woman; social roles; Gestalt-therapy.

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