Brief Encounters with Couples

ISBN-13: 9781855752764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 182 str.

Francis Grier

Opis

Deriving from a conference organised by the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute, the present volume draws the main focus of its inquiry from a few fundamental questions.

Spis treści

Foreword , Introduction , First contacts: the therapist’s “couple state of mind” as a factor in the containment of couples seen for consultations , Thoughts about the couple relationship following the death of a child , Brief encounters: work with parents and infants in an under-fives’ counselling service , Brief work with parents of infants , Giving advice during consultations: unconscious enactment or thoughtful containment? , Emotional contact and containment in psychosexual medicine , A psychoanalytic approach to brief marital psychotherapy , The court, the couple, and the consultant: is there room for a third position?

O autorze

Francis Grier