Couple Therapy: The Self in the Relationship

ISBN-13: 9781403994905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 192 str.

Jim Crawley

Opis

Using vivid case studies and vignettes of clinical practice, Crawley and Grant provide a comprehensive overview of couples therapy within a psychodynamic and systemic framework. Arguing that successful work with couples requires an understanding of, and a capacity to engage with, both the individual partners and the dynamics of their relationship, the authors show how theoretical understanding of the phenomenon of the couple relationship plays out in the practical issues that confront the counselor or therapist working with couples.

Spis treści

Introduction.- The Psychodynamics of the Couple Relationship: Object Relations Theory.- The Psychodynamics of the Couple Relationship: Self Psychology, InterSubjectivity, and Attachment Theory.- Thinking Systemically About the Couple.- What About Love?.- Assessment.- Technique.- Therapeutic Process.- The Dynamics of Presenting Problems.- Epilogue: Surviving as a Couple Therapist.

O autorze

JIM CRAWLEY is a private practitioner of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Western Australia. He was inaugural president of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA); a senior lecturer teaching on the Master of Social Science (Counselling) course, at Edith Cowan University, Perth; and the executive director of the Marriage Guidance Council of Western Australia (now Relationships Australia WA). He is co-author of Transference and Projection: mirrors to the self and author of Couple Therapy in Australia: issues emerging from practice.

JAN GRANT is programme director of the Masters and PhD programmes in Counselling at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia, and has a private psychotherapy practice. She is a member of the College of Counselling Psychologists, APS, and is a past president of SCAPE. She is co-author of Transference and Projection: mirrors to the self and co-editor of Australian Journal of Counselling Psychology.