Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy: Foundations of Theory and Practice (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780367102036)

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.

Author: David E. Scharff
ISBN-10: 036710203X
ISBN-13: 9780367102036
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 06/14/2019
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.14lbs
Size: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.81d