Equal partners - good friends : empowering couples through therapy / / Claire Rabin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821170403321
• Autore: Rabin Claire Low
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996
• ISBN: 1-134-81938-2; 1-134-81939-0; 1-280-32067-2; 9786610320677; 0-203-42940-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
• Disciplina: 616; 616.89/156
• Soggetti: Marital psychotherapy; Man-woman relationships; Sex role; Dominance (Psychology); Communication in marriage; Equality; Friendship; Marriage - Psychological aspects
• 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 (p. [264]-271) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: a change in perspective; Gender, power and contemporary relationship tension; The egalitarian alternative. What is it? Is it worth the effort?; Friendship: the basic condition of equal partnership; Shared power: the road to mutual empowerment; Towards an integrative model of treatment goals for couples; Assessment; Types of couples seeking therapy; Creating an egalitarian therapeutic system; The treatment model: individual interventions and education about equality; Couple interventions; Treatment of the traditional couple: putting the wife in chargeTreatment of the transitional couple: overt and covert power ; struggles; Issues in training and supervision; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Marriage as an equal partnership is the goal of amny couples in the western world today and yet equality is often limited by the ways that power and gender interact in the relationship, leading to dissatisfaction and ultimately the break up of the marriage. In Equal PArtners - Good Friends Claire Rabin examines the connection between inequality in marriage and marital distress. Drawing on extensive research and personal interviews in the UK, USA and Israel, she stresses the role of friendship in establishing a truly equal relationship. Focusing on issues of gender, sex roles and power