Couples in collusion : short-term, assessment-based strategies for helping couples disarm their defenses / / Dennis A. Bagarozzi

• Autore: Bagarozzi Dennis A
• Pubblicazione: New York, NY, : Routledge, 2012, c2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.89/1562
• Soggetto topico: Marriage counseling; Interpersonal relations; Counseling psychology
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Couples in Collusion; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Introduction; 1. A Couple's Presentation as a Collusive Defense; 2. Marital Structure, Interactive Dynamics, and the Self; 3. Assessment: Theoretical and Practical Considerations; 4. Revisiting the Presenting Problem as a Collusive Defense: Treatment Guidelines and Case Studies; 5. Acting Out and Monitoring and Restraining: An Overview; 6. Acting Out: Case Examples and Treatment; 7. Monitoring and Restraining: Case Example and Treatment; 8. Complementary Defensive Systems: Couple Mythologies ; 9. Further Assessment Considerations: Primitive Defenses in Borderline and Narcissistic Disorders10. Working With Primitive Defenses in Couple Therapy: Case Examples of Borderline and Narcissistic Dynamics; Epilogue; Appendix A: Follow-Up Questionnaire; Appendix B: Relationship Problems Questionnaire; Appendix C: Guidelines for Speakers and Receivers; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: When a couple enters therapy, both partners have either explicit or implicit understandings of what can-and, more importantly, cannot-be discussed in therapy. Even when empirically tested assessments are used to help pinpoint areas of concern and conflict, couples may choose to identify only those areas that are relatively safe and do not seriously threaten each partner's sense of integrity and vulnerability. How is a therapist supposed to proceed when a couple comes in for a tune-up, not realizing that their entire transmission needs to be serviced? Therapists know that some relationships,
• Titolo autorizzato: Couples in collusion
• ISBN: 1-136-51891-6; 1-283-52081-8; 9786613833266; 0-203-15234-4; 1-136-51892-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811229703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Family therapy and counseling series.