A Family Systems Guide to Infidelity: Helping Couples Understand, Recover From, and Avoid Future Affairs

ISBN-13: 9780415787765 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 196 str.

Paul R. Peluso

Opis

A Family Systems Guide to Infidelity offers an explanatory model and concrete techniques, enabling therapists and counselors to treat the core of a couple’s relationship problems instead of merely applying a therapeutic bandage.

Spis treści

1. Introduction and Overview  2. Historical Family Systems Review and Current State of the Art  3. Relationship Dissatisfaction: The Stock Market of Love  4. Power Imbalances: The See-Saw of Love in Relationships  5. The Death of the Dream, The Fantasy Unfulfilled, The Wish Un-Granted, and the Opening of the Door to Infidelity  6. Detonation of the Bomb: Infidelity Discovered, the Partner’s Perspective and the Decision to Pick up the Pieces or Pack it in  7. Exploring the Wishes, Dreams, and Fantasies Unfulfilled and/or Developing New Ones to Pursue Together  8. Rebalancing the See-Saw: Sharing Power and Working Together  9. Increasing Satisfaction and Learning to Ride the Ups and Downs of Relationships  10. Affair Proof! How to Help Couples Make Sure An Infidelity Isn’t Happening or Won’t Ever Happen Again  11. Conclusion and Wrap-Up