A Couple State of Mind

Author: Mary Morgan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429835698
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
A Couple State of Mind is a much anticipated book aimed at an international audience of practitioners, students and teachers of psychoanalytic couple therapy, describes the Tavistock Relationships model of couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy, drawing on both historical and contemporary ideas, including the author’s own theoretical contributions. The book references contemporary influences of other psychoanalytic approaches to couples, particularly from an international perspective. It will be invaluable for all students learning about psychoanalytic work with couples for other psychoanalytic practitioners interested in this field.

The Couple State of Mind

Author: Mary Morgan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782205142
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
This long awaited book aimed at an international audience of practitioners, students and teachers of psychoanalytic couples therapy will describe the TCCR model of couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy drawing on both historical and contemporary ideas, including the author's own theoretical contributions. It will reference contemporary influences of other analytic approaches to couples, particularly from an international perspective. In Chapter 1, couple analytic theory is conceptualised incorporating unconscious determinants from the couple's pasts, the relationship in terms of psychic development, the difficulties in the present in being with an other, and the possibilities for the creative relating in the future. The aim of couples therapy is discussed linked to the internalisation of a couple state of mind. Chapters 2, 3, & 4 discuss the essential issues of assessment, engaging a couple in treatment and the specific couple therapy setting. Chapter 5 looks at a psychoanalytic understanding the couple relationship, expanding the theoretical ideas in chapter 1 in terms of clinical practice, for example the couples projective system, and the tension between narcissistic relating and creative coupling.Chapters 6 & 7 focus on technique e.g. transference, countertransference, interpretation and other couple interventions. Chapter 8 looks at what ending means in couples analytic therapy.The final chapter provides a glossary of terms for the developing terminology in the couple analytic field.

States of Mind

Author: Brad Herzog
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743417828
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
Brad Herzog, a disillusioned Generation X-er crosses America in a Winnebago to seek out the states of mind of Americans today. He turns a literal search for places on the map into a figurative examination of places of the heart. He reports on the state of towns and villages, presenting the small town as microcosm and the hamlet as allegory.

A Couple State of Mind

Author: Mary E. Morgan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780429451102
Category : Couples
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy

Author: David E. Scharff
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429917902
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 494

Book Description
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.

Couples on the Couch

Author: Shelley Nathans
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315278804
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Introduction : core concepts of the Tavistock couple psychotherapy model / Shelley Nathans -- Couples on the couch : working psychoanalytically with couple relationships / Stanley Ruszczynski -- Discussion of "couples on the couch : working psychoanalytically with couple relationships" / Rachel Cooke -- Unconscious beliefs about being a couple / Mary Morgan -- Discussion of "unconscious beliefs about being a couple" : beliefs about a couple and beliefs about the other / Milton Schaefer -- The Macbeths in the consulting room / James V. Fisher -- Discussion of "the Macbeths in the consulting room" / Shelley Nathans -- Psychotic and depressive processes in couple functioning / Francis Grier -- Discussion of "psychotic and depressive processes in couple functioning" / Julie Friend -- Romantic bonds, binds and ruptures : couples on the brink / Virginia Goldner -- Discussion of "romantic bonds, binds and ruptures : couples on the brink" / Rachael Peltz -- How was it for you? Attachment, sexuality and mirroring in couple relationships / Christopher Clulow -- Discussion of "how was it for you? Attachment, mirroring, and the psychotherapeutic process with couples" / Leora Benioff -- Growing old together in mind and body / Andrew Balfour -- Discussion of "growing old together in mind and body" / Leslye Russell.

Single State of Mind

Author: Andi Dorfman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501174231
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
The breakout star of ABC’s The Bachelorette and New York Times bestselling author of It’s Not Okay returns with a “relatable AF” (Cosmopolitan) collection of her adventures as a still-single gal surviving and thriving in New York City. Sharing moments like finding her first New York apartment (the front door broke so she had to use the fire escape), her first dates on “celebrity Tinder” (just as bad as regular Tinder) and finally, watching her ex-fiancé propose to another woman on Bachelor in Paradise, Andi Dorfman doesn’t shy away from pulling back the curtain on the life of a reality star who’s returned to reality. Once again, Dorfman “doesn’t hold back” (HuffPost) as she recounts her romantic mishaps, city adventures, and, of course, insider Bachelor experiences. Single State of Mind is Sex and the City for the reality TV generation.

Sexual States of Mind

Author: Donald Meltzer
Publisher: Harris Meltzer Trust
ISBN: 1912567466
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
A ground-breaking psychoanalytic study on sexuality which maintains its originality today, forty-five years after its first publication. The book is a revision of psychoanalytic theory, starting with the work of Freud himself and including Melanie Klein's contributions on the early Oedipus Complex and the Depressive Position. But more than that, it is a metapsychological study of sexuality which provides a different perspective from more well-known ones that relate simply to a descriptive or behavioural point of view. In differentiating adult sexuality from infantile sexuality and polymorphism and perversion, taking unconscious phantasy and the notion of the primal scene as the pivotal point, Meltzer proposes a unified theoretical and clinical model which has proved of particular help in the field of the psychopathology of addictions and perversions.

How Couple Relationships Shape our World

Author: Andrew Balfour
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429914598
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 442

Book Description
This book is about the importance of the couple relationship in the broadest terms. It draws on clinical researches into the inner lived world of adult couples, empirical developmental research into children and parenting, as well as the legal setting when relationships break down. It aims to bridge the inner and outer worlds, showing how our most intimate relationships have vital importance at all levels, from the individual and the family, to the social setting - and explores the implications for practice and policy. Above all, it is a book about applications of clinical thinking linked with research knowledge, as tools for front line workers and policy makers alike. It draws on the tradition of applied clinical thinking and research of the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, linking current thinking with the history of ideas in each area it covers, as well as considering implications for the future.

The Heart of Couple Therapy

Author: Ellen F. Wachtel
Publisher: Guilford Publications
ISBN: 1462528198
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
Grounded in a deep understanding of what makes intimate relationships succeed, this book provides concrete guidelines for addressing the complexities of real-world clinical practice with couples. Leading couple therapist Ellen Wachtel describes the principles of therapeutic interventions that motivate couples to alter entrenched patterns, build on strengths, and navigate the “legacy” issues that each person brings to the relationship. She illuminates the often unrecognized choices that therapists face throughout the session and deftly explicates their implications. The epilogue by Paul Wachtel situates the author's pragmatic approach in the broader context of contemporary psychotherapy theory and research.