Psychoanalytic couple therapy foundations of theory and practice

In this time of vulnerable marriages and partnerships, many couples seek help for their relationships. Psychoanalytic couple therapy is a growing application of psychoanalysis for which training is not usually offered in most psychoanalytic and analytic psychotherapy programs. This book is both an a...

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Other Authors: Scharff, David E., author (author), Scharff, David E., 1941- editor (editor), Scharff, Jill Savege, editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis [2018].
Edition:1st ed
Series:Library of couple and family psychoanalysis
The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798183406719
Table of Contents:
  • COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PART I FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOANALYTIC COUPLE THERAPY; CHAPTER ONE An overview of psychodynamic couple therapy; CHAPTER TWO Shared unconscious phantasy in couples; CHAPTER THREE Intimacy and the couple-the long and winding road; CHAPTER FOUR Attachment, affect regulation, and couple psychotherapy; CHAPTER FIVE Aggression in couples: an object relations primer; CHAPTER SIX Getting back to or getting back at: understanding overt aggression in couple relationships
  • CHAPTER SEVEN Responding to the clinical needs of same-sex couples CHAPTER EIGHT The selfdyad in the dynamic organisation of the couple; CHAPTER NINE Dreams in analytic couple therapy; CHAPTER TEN Why can being a creative couple be so difficult to achieve? The impact of early anxieties on relating; PART II ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT; CHAPTER ELEVEN The couple state of mind and some aspects of the setting in couple psychotherapy; CHAPTER TWELVE Establishing a therapeutic relationship in analytic couple therapy; CHAPTER THIRTEEN The triangular field of couple containment
  • CHAPTER FOURTEEN Projection, introjection, intrusive identification, adhesive identification CHAPTER FIFTEEN Negotiating individual and joint transferences in couple therapy; CHAPTER SIXTEEN Narcissism in a couple with a cocaine addicted partner; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The dream space in analytic couple therapy; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Clinical narrative and discussion: a couple who lost joy; PART III UNDERSTANDING AND TREATING SEXUAL ISSUES; CHAPTER NINETEEN How development structures sexual relationships; CHAPTER TWENTY Assessing the sexual relationship
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Addressing sexual issues in couple therapy CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Unconscious meanings and consequences of abortion in the life of couples; CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Working with affairs; PART IV SPECIAL TOPICS; CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR The couple as parents: the role of children in couple treatment; CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Divorce and parenting wars; CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Trauma in the couple; CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Treating intergenerational trauma: the bomb that exploded me continues to blow up my family
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT But my partner "is" the problem: addressing addiction, mood disorders, and psychiatric illness in psychoanalytic couple treatmentCHAPTER TWENTY-NINE The ending of couple therapy with a couple who recovered joy; EPILOGUE; INDEX