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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790709903321

Autore

Scharff David E.

Titolo

Psychoanalytic couple therapy : foundations of theory and practice / / by David E. Scharff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018]

©2014

ISBN

0-429-91790-2

0-429-90367-7

0-367-10203-X

0-429-47890-9

1-78241-193-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Collana

Library of couple and family psychoanalysis

Disciplina

616.891562

Soggetti

Couples therapy

Psychoanalysis

Psychodynamic psychotherapy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 advanced text for therapists and a primer for new students of couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Its twenty-eight chapters cover the major ideas underlying the application of psychoanalysis to couple therapy, many clinical illustrations of cases and problems in various dimensions of the work. The international group of authors comes from the International Psychotherapy Institute based in Washington, DC, and the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships (TCCR) in London. The result is a richly international perspective that nonetheless has theoretical and clinical coherence because of the shared vision of the authors.