Family and Couple Psychoanalysis: A Global Perspective / Edition 1

by Elizabeth Palacios, David E. Scharff

Overview

This book explores family interaction and family psychoanalysis from varying standpoints used around the world. It illustrates these with extensive clinical cases discussed from varying perspectives. The book is the first in a series of volumes from the International Psychoanalytical Association's Working Group on Family and Couple Psychoanalysis, drawn from its ongoing research into comparative theories and methods of working analytically with families and couples, and with varying types of family structure. It also applies lessons from family psychoanalysis to analytic theory and to the practice of individual psychoanalysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782205081
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/30/2017
Series:	The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Palacios

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword , Preface , Introduction: Theoretical and Clinical Approaches to Family and Couple Psychoanalysis Around the World , Theoretical diversity in family and couple psychoanalysis around the world , Brief introductions to theoretical and clinical approaches around the world , Pichon Rivière and the theory of the link , The link and its interferences , Case Examples and Discussion , Contributions to the link perspective in interventions with families: theoretical and technical aspects, and clinical application , A couple case seen at Tavistock Relationships , Parental couple therapy , A complex couple case , Trauma and early enactment in couple therapy , Treating the family ramifications of sexual difficulty , A journey from blame to empathy in a family assessment of a mother and her sons , To fulfil from within what was built from around , Dora and Carlo , Now you see us, now you don't: dealing with resistance in episodic couple treatment , Epilogue

Editorial Reviews

"By gathering together a variety of theoretical concepts, as well as clinical cases of couple and family psychoanalysis from around the world, this book will become an essential text for all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. Offering an ideal of excellence in this widened practice of contemporary psychoanalysis, it will be met with interest by all those who appreciate and are involved in this area of human knowledge."

Valentin Barenblit

"An important aspect to be mentioned regarding this extremely stimulating text is its potential function as a proactive generator of new ideas feeding back into the classical psychoanalytic theory it comes from. This book can rightfully be considered a 'foundational contribution' to the study of family and couple psychoanalysis. A great scientific achievement for the psychoanalytic movement, and a great help for both practitioners and patients."

Stefano Bolognini

"The presentations in this book provide us with a detailed and engaging experience of the therapeutic process. They push us to widen our horizons, develop our reflexive muscle, check our omnipotence, and increase our capacity to bear uncertainty, even - and especially - when this threatens to tread uncomfortably on the dream-like stories that we might be tempted to weave to cope with the unbearable realities that are often part and parcel of the work we do. Here is a book that links us to ourselves as well as to global perspectives on couple and family psychoanalysis, one that exposes us to the new and unfamiliar as much as to what we think we know. It is a book that unites us in a shared appreciation of what it means to be human and in the value of striving to promote the best of humanity."

Christopher Clulow

"An important aspect to be mentioned regarding this extremely stimulating text is its potential function as a proactive generator of new ideas feeding back into the classical psychoanalytic theory it comes from. This book can rightfully be considered a 'foundational contribution' to the study of family and couple psychoanalysis. A great scientific achievement for the psychoanalytic movement, and a great help for both practitioners and patients."— (01/01/2017)

"By gathering together a variety of theoretical concepts, as well as clinical cases of couple and family psychoanalysis from around the world, this book will become an essential text for all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. Offering an ideal of excellence in this widened practice of contemporary psychoanalysis, it will be met with interest by all those who appreciate and are involved in this area of human knowledge."— (01/01/2017)

"The presentations in this book provide us with a detailed and engaging experience of the therapeutic process. They push us to widen our horizons, develop our reflexive muscle, check our omnipotence, and increase our capacity to bear uncertainty, even - and especially - when this threatens to tread uncomfortably on the dream-like stories that we might be tempted to weave to cope with the unbearable realities that are often part and parcel of the work we do. Here is a book that links us to ourselves as well as to global perspectives on couple and family psychoanalysis, one that exposes us to the new and unfamiliar as much as to what we think we know. It is a book that unites us in a shared appreciation of what it means to be human and in the value of striving to promote the best of humanity."— (01/01/2017)

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