Handbook of the Clinical Treatment of Infidelity

ISBN-13: 9780789029959 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 219 str.

Fred P. Piercy; Katherine M. Hertlein; Joseph L. Wetchler

Opis

In the Handbook of the Clinical Treatment of Infidelity, a panel of seasoned experts reflects on issues central to affairs, and on how to help couples heal and learn from them. First, editors Fred P. Piercy, Katherine M. Hertlein, and Joseph L. Wetchler provide an essential overview of infidelity theory, research, and treatment. They discuss the effect of infidelity on couples and delineate three types of infidelity emotional, physical, and infidelity including aspects of both. They review the relatively new role of the Internet in infidelity and explore infidelity within the context of comarital relationships. Finally, they discuss the overarching theories and common models used in infidelity treatment.

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
  
• Introduction (Fred P. Piercy, Katherine M. Hertlein, and Joseph L. Wetchler)
  
• Infidelity: An Overview (Katherine M. Hertlein, Joseph L. Wetchler, and Fred P. Piercy)
  
• CLINICAL MODELS
  
• Broken Bonds: An Emotionally Focused Approach to Infidelity (Susan M. Johnson)
  
• Undercurrents (David Moultrup)
  
• Healing the Wounds of Infidelity Through the Healing Power of Apology and Forgiveness (Brian Case)
  
• Split Self Affairs and Their Treatment (Emily M. Brown)
  
• Marital Infidelity: The Effects of Delayed Traumatic Reaction (Don-David Lusterman)
  
• “Accusatory Suffering” in the Offended Spouse (Frank Stalfa and Catherine Hastings)
  
• Face It Head On: Helping A Couple Move Through the Painful and Pernicious Effects of Infidelity (Adrian J. Blow)
  
• INTERNET INFIDELITY
  
• Taking the Good with the Bad: Applying Klein’s Work to Further Our Understandings of Cyber-Cheating (Monica T. Whitty and Adrian N. Carr)
  
• Cyber-Affairs: “What’s the Big Deal?” Therapeutic Considerations (Joan D. Atwood)
  
• SPECIAL ISSUES
  
• The Relationship, If Any, Between Marriage and Infidelity (Frank S. Pittman III and Tina Pittman Wagers)
  
• A Family Systems Approach to Working with Sexually Open Gay Male Couples (Michael Bettinger)
  
• Your Cheatin’ Heart: Myths and Absurdities About Extradyadic Relationships (Scott Johnson)
  
• RESEARCH
  
• Internet Infidelity: A Multi-Phase Delphi Study (Tim Nelson, Fred P. Piercy, and Douglas H. Sprenkle)
  
• Assessing the Relationship Between Differentiation and Infidelity: A Structural Equation Model (Katherine M. Hertlein and Gary Skaggs)
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

O autorze

Katherine Milewski Hertlein, Fred P Piercy, Joseph L. Wetchler