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This book presents psychoanalytic thinking about the phenomenon of the couple and couple dynamics at different levels of organization: the "couple" in the individual's internal world, the dynamics between partners in a couple relationship, and the dynamics between the couple and the group.

Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health considers the role of forgiveness in mental life, about both forgiving and being forgiven. Each chapter addresses concepts including superego, repetition compulsion, enactment and notions such as sacrifice, penance, justification, absolution, and contrition.

Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health considers the role of forgiveness in mental life, about both forgiving and being forgiven. Each chapter addresses concepts including superego, repetition compulsion, enactment and notions such as sacrifice, penance, justification, absolution, and contrition.

This book presents the application of key psychoanalytic concepts in thinking about the dynamics in the couple relationship. The contributions to the first part, mainly theory, discuss how different psychoanalytic ideas can be used in conceptualizing the nature of couple interaction. In the second part, on clinical practice, four couples tell their stories during their clinical sessions. Couple stories conveys a lively experience of the couple's relationships as these occur in the consulting room and there are several commentaries for each 'couple story'. Commentaries explore the...