Talking with Couples
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Couple Relationship
By (author) Giulio Cesare Zavattini By (author) Barbara Bianchini By (author) Marina Capello By (author) Maria Adelaide Lupinacci By (author) Fabio Monguzzi By (author) Lidia Vitalini
Paperback (Published)
(October 2015)
ISBN: 9781782201175
5.94 x 9.06 inches
Price: $35.00
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This book describes couple therapy by a group of psychoanalytic psychotherapists who have worked for many years with families and individuals in both the private and public sectors in Italy.
In this compact and illuminating study of the evolving theoretical framework informing psychoanalytic work with couples, the authors highlight concepts that have been most drawn upon in developing dynamic couple therapy. They chart the shifting emphasis away from interpreting and reconstructing the past towards approaches that engage partners and therapists in constructing and reflecting on their encounters with each other in the present. The triangular space that is created through this process contains therapists as well as the couples with whom they talk, and invites us to revisit the essential nature of the therapeutic conversation in this light. A thoughtful and fascinating book that will interest everyone who is keen to understand the interior world of couple psychotherapy.
Foreword
Meg Harris Williams
Author’s Preface
Introduction
I – THE PHASES OF THE ANALYTIC PROCESS
1. The gathering of the transference
2. The sorting of geographical confusions
3. The sorting of zonal confusions
4. The threshold of the depressive position
5. The weaning process
II – THE ANALYST’S TASK AND FUNCTIONS
6. The process with adult patients
7. The cycle of the process in the individual sessions
8. The analytical work
9. Psychoanalysis as a human activity
Appendices A–L
References
Index
- By (author) Giulio Cesare Zavattini
- By (author) Barbara Bianchini
- By (author) Marina Capello
- By (author) Maria Adelaide Lupinacci
- By (author) Fabio Monguzzi
- By (author) Lidia Vitalini
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