Couple psychotherapy extends the work of the psychotherapist to the patient's most significant committed adult relationship, yet the therapy is difficult both conceptually and technically. One major reason for this difficulty is that in every couple's treatment there is a confusing array of psychological defenses as well as regressive and nonregressive couple object relations-as distinct from the object relations that each individual member brings to the couple. Further, many of these processes are occurring outside consciousness and at the very same time. This book is an attempt to clarify...

Psychoanalysis from the Indian Terroir: Emerging Themes in Culture, Family, and Childhood in India represents the best of Indian scholarship from emerging psychoanalytic thinkers and researchers on culture, family, politics and the future of India.