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Archival Collection of Talks on Various Bahá'í Subjects

The Poetry of Loving: Family Therapy and the Bahá'í Faith

1981

Poetry of Loving: Family Therapy and the Bahá'í Faith

Dr. Bruwer begins by quoting ‘Abdu’l-Baha: “The family is as a nation in minature.” Enlarging on the basic family unit humanity has successively gone through tribal, city, community, and nation organization. Man cannot live alone; he needs others for emotional support and the necessities of life.

He reviews the various models of family life and therapy. The “poetry” refered to in the title is the “poetry of love”. It is a reflecting model that is a kind of metaphor for rhyming, illustration, reciprocity and many other phenomena of human relationship.