More About Couples on the Couch

Approaching Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy from an Expanded Perspective

Shelley Nathans

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781032207445
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000736199
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Following the critically acclaimed Couples on the Couch, this volume offers further compelling ideas about couple psychotherapy from a psychoanalytic perspective.

The book well represents the foundational basis of the Tavistock model and draws deeply from the work of Freud, Klein, Bion, Meltzer and the contemporary Kleinians, while expanding the theoretical model by featuring ideas about couple relationships written from a variety of psychoanalytic frameworks. These additional frameworks include Winnicottian Theory, Fairbairn's Object Relations Theory, Link Theory, Self Psychology, Attachment Theory, Mentalization Theory, and Contemporary Relational Theory. This rich array of theoretical models, presented with exemplifying clinical material, results in a diverse assembly of papers that offer the reader an in-depth and complex view of a psychoanalytic approach to understanding and working with the dynamics of couple relationships.

With clear clinical guidance, this book will be invaluable for all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists working with couples.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Endorsement Page
• Half Title page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Credits list
• Contributors
• Chapter 1 Re-visioning creativity in couple psychoanalysis The importance of Winnicott and Bollas in clinical practice
• Chapter 2 Discussion of “Re-visioning creativity in couple psychoanalysis” The importance of Winnicott and Bollas in clinical practice
• Chapter 3 Love as creative illusion and its place in psychoanalytic couple psychotherapy*
• Chapter 4 Discussion of “Love as creative illusion and its place in psychoanalytic couple psychotherapy”
• Chapter 5 Infidelity as manic defence
• Chapter 6 Discussion of “Infidelity as manic defence”
• Chapter 7 Viewing the absence of sex from couple relationships through the “core complex” lens
• Chapter 8 Discussion of “Viewing the absence of sex from couple relationships through the ‘core complex’ lens”
• Chapter 9 Lesbian and gay couple relationships When internalised homophobia gets in the way of couple creativity
• Chapter 10 Discussion of “Lesbian and gay couple relationships” When internalised homophobia gets in the way of couple creativity
• Chapter 11 Lost – and found – in translation Do Ronald Fairbairn’s ideas still speak usefully to 21st-century couple therapists?
• Chapter 12 Discussion of “Lost – and found – in translation” Do Ronald Fairbairn’s ideas still speak usefully to 21st-century couple therapists?
• Chapter 13 Approaching couples through the lens of Link Theory
• Chapter 14 Discussion of “Approaching couples through the lens of Link Theory”
• Chapter 15 The application of contemporary Self Psychology to couple psychotherapy
• Chapter 16 Discussion of “The application of contemporary Self Psychology to couple psychotherapy”
• Chapter 17 Co-parent therapy and the parenting plan as transitional phenomena* Working psychoanalytically with high-conflict separating and divorcing couples
• Chapter 18 Discussion of “Co-parent therapy and the parenting plan as transitional phenomena” Working psychoanalytically with high-conflict separating and divorcing couples
• Index