Ebook: 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 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.;pt. I FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOANALYTIC COUPLE THERAPY -- ch. One An overview of psychodynamic couple therapy / Jill Savege Scharff -- ch. Two Shared unconscious phantasy in couples / David Hewison -- ch. Three Intimacy and the couple -- the long and winding road / Susanna Abse -- ch. Four Attachment, affect regulation, and couple psychotherapy / Christopher Clulow -- ch. Five Aggression in couples: an object relations primer / David E. Scharff -- ch. Six Getting back to or getting back at: understanding overt aggression in couple relationships / Christopher Vincent -- ch. Seven Responding to the clinical needs of same-sex couples / Damian McCann -- ch. Eight The selfdyad in the dynamic organisation of the couple / Richard M. Zeitner -- ch. Nine Dreams in analytic couple therapy / David E. Scharff -- ch. Ten Why can being a creative couple be so difficult to achieve? The impact of early anxieties on relating / Mary Morgan.