In this landmark book, David Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff, both psychoanalysts, develop a way of thinking about and working with the couple as a small group of two, held together as a tightly knit system by a commitment that is powerfully reinforced by the bond of mutual sexual pleasure.
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By drawing upon object relations concepts, the couples therapist is able to work with both the intrapsychic makeup of the partners and their ways of relating as a couple.
Integrating the rich ideas and techniques from two psychoanalytic traditions, object relations and relational theory, Object Relations and Relationality in Couple Therapy: Exploring the Middle Ground surveys those problems, reviews the ...
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She makes a pinching gesture as though she were honking my puppet's nose too. Feeling her anger as though it were my actual nose she was pinching, I say half defensively, “Maybe if you could talk about that, you wouldn't have such a ...
This book is an attempt to clarify all the confusing issues by presenting a three-factor model of couple psychotherapy within a psychodynamic framework. This model has been found to be very effective with many different kinds of couples.
Explains object relationships theory, describes the four stages of therapy, and discusses the personal side of psychotherapy
This book is both an advanced text for therapists and a primer for new students of couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
Emphasizing the transformational possibilities that grow out of their relational model of therapy, David E. and Jill Savege Scharff invite us into the territory of interactive journeys with individual patients. A contemporary classic.
This book is both an advanced text for therapists and a primer for new students of couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy.