Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy (eBook)

Series Editor's Foreword , Preface and Acknowledgements , Fundamental Principles of Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy , An overview of psychodynamic couple therapy , Shared unconscious phantasy in couples , Intimacy and the couple-the long and winding road , Attachment, affect regulation, and couple psychotherapy , Aggression in couples: an object relations primer , Getting back to or getting back at: understanding overt aggression in couple relationships , Responding to the clinical needs of same-sex couples , The selfdyad in the dynamic organisation of the couple , Dreams in analytic couple therapy , Why can being a creative couple be so difficult to achieve? The impact of early anxieties on relating , Assessment And Treatment , The couple state of mind and some aspects of the setting in couple psychotherapy , Establishing a therapeutic relationship in analytic couple therapy , The triangular field of couple containment , Projection, introjection, intrusive identification, adhesive identification , Negotiating individual and joint transferences in couple therapy , Narcissism in a couple with a cocaine-addicted partner , The dream space in analytic couple therapy , Clinical narrative and discussion: a couple who lost joy , Understanding and Treating Sexual Issues , How development structures sexual relationships , Assessing the sexual relationship , Addressing sexual issues in couple therapy , Unconscious meanings and consequences of abortion in the life of couples , Working with affairs , Special Topics , The couple as parents: the role of children in couple treatment , Divorce and parenting wars , Trauma in the Couple , Treating Intergenerational Trauma: The Bomb that Exploded Me Continues to Blow up My Family , But My Partner "Is" the Problem: Addressing Addiction, Mood Disorders, and Psychiatric Illness in Psychoanalytic Couple Treatment , The Ending of Couple Therapy with a Couple Who Recovered Joy , Epilogue