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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789539803321

Autore

Grier Francis

Titolo

Brief encounters with couples / / Francis Grier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2018

ISBN

0-429-91160-2

0-429-89737-5

0-429-47260-9

1-283-12561-7

9786613125613

1-84940-317-1

Edizione

[1st]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Disciplina

616.89/156

616.89156

Soggetti

Marital psychotherapy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; Introduction; Chapter 1. First contacts: the therapist's ""couple state of mind'' as a factor in the containment of couples seen for consultations; Chapter 2. Thoughts about the couple relationship following the death of a child; Chapter 3. Brief encounters: work with parents and infants in an under-fives' counselling service; Chapter 4. Brief work with parents of infants; Chapter 5. Giving advice during consultations: unconscious enactment or thoughtful containment?

Chapter 6. Emotional contact and containment in psychosexual medicineChapter 7. A psychoanalytic approach to brief marital psychotherapy; Chapter 8. The court, the couple, and the consultant: is there room for a third position?; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Deriving from a conference organised by the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute, the present volume draws the main focus of its inquiry from a few fundamental questions.