Books
A Couple State of Mind
Psychoanalysis of Couples and the Tavistock Relationships Model
By Mary Morgan
Tavistock Relationships is delighted to announce 'A Couple State of Mind, Psychoanalysis of Couples and the Tavistock Relationships Model' by Mary Morgan. It will be invaluable reading for all students learning about psychoanalytic work with couples and for psychoanalytic work with couples and for psychoanalytic therapists and counsellors
About the Book
The content, after describing the Tavistock Relationships model of couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy (drawing on both historical and contemporary ideas), also references contemporary influences of other psychoanalytic approaches to couples and features Mary Morgan’s own contributions.
About the Editors
Mary is a Psychoanalyst and Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and was Reader in Couple Psychoanalysis at Tavistock Relationships. She has published widely on psychoanalytic work with couples. She is a member of the IPA’s Family and Couple Psychoanalysis Committee, Board member of the International Association for Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, on the international advisory board of the journals Couple & Family Psychoanalysis and Interatzioni. She has developed and led couple psychotherapy trainings in several countries, lectures internationally.
2018, Routledge
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Engaging Couples
New Directions in Therapeutic Work with Families
By Christopher Clulow, Kate Thompson, Andrew Balfour
This book challenges a silo-based approach within our available support services, examines the disconnects that can exist between child and adult mental health care, and between competing therapeutic approaches, and addresses the segmentation rather than integration of support for adults who are partners as well as parents.
Launched to coincide with Tavistock Relationships’ 70th Anniversary, the book represents essential reading for clinicians, family practitioners, their support staff and trainers.
About the Book
Within Engaging Couples, put forward are new ways of approaching key issues affecting family life, such as interparental conflict, domestic abuse, depression and long-term conditions. These topics are viewed through a lens that sees healthy relationships as fundamental to our wellbeing and vital for a well-functioning society.’
The authors have extensive experience in front-line services. They examine clearly the issues their intervention is designed to address, draw on a solid conceptual framework for their approach and evidence its effectiveness through examples and discussions of best practice.
About the Editors
Christopher Clulow is a Consultant Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, a Senior Fellow of the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, London, and a Fellow of the Centre for Social Policy, Dartington. He has published extensively on marriage, partnerships, parenthood and couple psychotherapy.
Kate Thompson is a Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, head of Tavistock Relationship’s strategic development and Couple Therapy for Depression training, Kate has worked with couples for over 20 years and specialises in the impact of mental health difficulties on relationships.
Andrew Balfour is Chief Executive at Tavistock Relationships, and a Fellow at St George’s House, Windsor. He is a clinical psychologist, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. With Mary Morgan and Christopher Vincent, he co-edited How Couple Relationships Shape our World: Clinical Practice, Research and Policy Perspectives.
2018, Routledge
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Couple Stories
Application of Psychoanalytic Ideas in Thinking about Couple Interaction
Edited by Aleksandra Novakovic and Marguerite Reid
Couple Stories 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.
About the Book
Written with the contributions of many members of Tavistock Relationships’ Faculty staff and graduates, Couple Stories conveys experience of the couple’s relationships as these occur in the consulting room and there are several commentaries for each ‘couple story’.
About the Editors
Aleksandra Novakovic is a Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and a Psychoanalyst who has worked at Tavistock Relationships.
Marguerite Reid is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist who has more recently trained as a Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. She is a Visiting Clinician at Tavistock Relationships.
2018, Routledge
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Couples on the Couch
Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy and the Tavistock Model
Edited by Shelley Nathans, Milton Schaefer
Couples on the Couch will be of great interest to couple psychotherapists and counsellors, marriage and family therapists, psychoanalysts, as well as graduate and postgraduate students in psychology, marriage and family therapy, or those in psychoanalytic
About the Book
Couples on the Couch provides a clear guide to applying the Tavistock model of couple psychotherapy in clinical psychoanalytic practice, offering a compelling sampling of ideas about couple relationships and couple psychotherapy from a broadly relational psychoanalytic perspective. The book provides an in-depth perspective to understanding intimate relationships and the complexities of working in this domain.The chapters and their accompanying discussion also offer a fertile resource of material for readers who have not previously had exposure to the theory and technique of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, as well as offering an expanded and more rigorous approach to those who are already familiar with the Tavistock model. The chapters cover key topics including: unconscious beliefs, forms of couple relating, sex and aging and draw upon the work of Klein, Winnicott and Bion, as well as attachment and object relations theory.
2017, Routledge
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Couple Therapy for Depression
A Clinician’s Guide to Integrative Practice
By David Hewison, Christopher Clulow and Harriet Drake
Tavistock Relationships is pleased to announce the publication of ‘Couple Therapy for Depression – A Clinician’s Guide to Integrative Practice’, written by Tavistock Relationships' David Hewison, Christopher Clulow and Harriet Drake.
Written by couple therapists who understand the unique challenges of doing therapy with couples, this book is based on the Tavistock Relationships' training programme for Couple Therapy for Depression commissioned by the NHS.
About the Book
This book begins by describing the causes and consequences of depression before focusing on its impact on the adult couple. Highlighting the particular techniques needed in safe and effective work with distressed couples, it goes through the different ways in which the couple’s feelings, thoughts, and behaviours need to be understood and worked with in order to reduce relationship distress. It outlines the treatment of four different couples to illustrate the therapy in action and it includes the national competencies and an outline assessment form so that therapists can rate themselves.
2014, Oxford University Press
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The EFS and ESSM Syllabus of Clinical Sexology
ESSM Educational Committee
Edited by P.S. Kirana, F. Tripodi, Y. Reisman, H. Porst
Tavistock Relationships is excited to announce the publication of the new, European-wide Syllabus of Clinical Sexology, in which Tavistock Relationships' Marian O'Connor and Janice Hiller have contributed a chapter on Psychodynamic Aspects of Psychosexual Therapy.
The book, which is published by the European Society for Sexual Medicine and European Federation of Sexology, is a comprehensive textbook on how to treat sexual dysfunctions.
About the Book
In their chapter, Marian and Janice discuss how psychoanalytical thinking, sometimes combined with behavioural and cognitive work, can inform work with couples and individuals who present with psychosexual problems.
Other topics include:
- Sociocultural Aspects of Human Sexuality
- Biopsychological Aspects of Sexual Development and Sexual Response
- Assessment of Sexual Dysfunctions
- Therapeutic Methods of Sexologists
- Male Sexual Dysfunctions
- Medical Conditions and Sexual Function
- Male Sexual Dysfunctions
- Other Disorders Related to Sexuality and Fertility and Contraception and Childbirth
2014, Oxford University Press
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Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy
Foundations of Theory and Practice
Edited by David E. Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff
This exciting new book from Tavistock Relationships and the International Psychotherapy Institute in Washington is a comprehensive statement about psychoanalytic work with couples from an international perspective. Drawing on collaborative video seminars between the two organisations, it outlines current theoretical debates and contemporary clinical practice. Tavistock Relationships senior staff Mary Morgan, Dr David Hewison, Pierre Cachia, Dr McCann, Christopher Vincent, Susanna Abse and Dr Christopher Clulow all contribute chapters.
About the Book
In this time of vulnerable marriages and partnerships, many couples seek help for their relationships. Psychoanalytic couple therapy is a growing application of psychoanalysis for which training is not usually offered in most psychoanalytic and analytic psychotherapy programs. This book is both an advanced text for therapists and a primer for new students of couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Its twenty-eight chapters cover the major ideas underlying the application of psychoanalysis to couple therapy, many clinical illustrations of cases and problems in various dimensions of the work. The international group of authors comes from the International Psychotherapy Institute based in Washington, DC, and the Tavistock Relationships in London. The result is a richly international perspective that nonetheless has theoretical and clinical coherence because of the shared vision of the authors.
2014, Karnac Books
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How Couple Relationships Shape Our World
Clinical Practice, Research and Policy Perspectives
Edited by Andrew Balfour, Mary Morgan and Chris Vincent
‘This is a most welcome, twenty-first century updating of psychodynamic approaches to working with couples. The best minds in the field have contributed to this comprehensive consideration of key aspects of this most important domain of clinical activity. This book represents a genuine leap forward.’ Professor Peter Fonagy, PhD, FBA, Head of Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology and Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre
About the Book
This book is about the importance of the couple relationship in the broadest terms. It draws on clinical researches into the inner lived world of adult couples, empirical developmental research into children and parenting, as well as the legal setting when relationships break down. It aims to bridge the inner and outer worlds, showing how our most intimate relationships have vital importance at all levels, from the individual and the family, to the social setting – and explores the implications for practice and policy. Above all, it is a book about applications of clinical thinking linked with research knowledge, as tools for front line workers and policy makers alike. It draws on the tradition of applied clinical thinking and research of the Tavistock Relationships, linking current thinking with the history of ideas in each area it covers, as well as considering implications for the future.
Contents
Forewords
Brett Kahr,Samantha Callan
Chapter One
Prevention: intervening with couples at challenging family transition points: Carolyn Pape Cowan and Philip A. Cowan
Commentary by Leezah Hertzmann
Chapter Two
Parents as partners: how the parental relationship affects children’s psychological development: Gordon T. Harold and Leslie D. Leve
Commentary by Susanna Abse
Chapter Three
How couple therapists work with parenting issues: Mary Morgan
Commentary by Lynne Cudmore
Chapter Four
The role of the family court system of England and Wales in child-related parental disputes: towards a new concept of the family justice process: Mervyn Murch
Commentary by Christopher Clulow
Chapter Five
Working therapeutically with high conflict divorce: Avi Shmueli
Commentary by Christopher Vincent
Chapter Six
Depression, couple therapy, research, and government policy: Julian Leff, Eia Asen, and Felix Schwarzenbach
Commentary by Christopher Clulow
Chapter Seven
Approaches to researching the evidence: an exploration of TCCR’s research into couple relationships and couple therapy, past and present: David Hewison
Commentary by Michael Rustin
Chapter Eight
Couple therapy—social engineering or psychological treatment?: Andrew Balfour
Commentary by Philip Stokoe
Chapter Nine
Her Majesty’s department of love? The state and support for couple and family relationships: Honor Rhodes
Commentary by Janet Walker
Chapter Ten
Supervision: the interdependence of professional experience and organisational accountability: Lynette Hughes and Felicia Olney
Commentary by David Lawlor
2012, Karnac Books
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Sex, Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy
Psychoanalytic Perspectives: A Psychoanalytic Reader
Edited by Christopher Clulow
'Threading through the chapters of this book is a strong sense of the interconnection between sexual behaviour and patterns of attachment in couple relationships. Each provides a window on the other, and, like a double helix, they snake an intertwined pathway together over the life course.' - from Christopher Clulow's introduction
About the Book
The contributors to this book have drawn on different mentors to provide a framework for understanding the sexual problems of the couples they see, and to inform the work they do. But whether Freud, Jung, Klein or Bowlby has been the progenitor of their own particular therapeutic narrative, the spirit of enquiry and curiosity is evident in their approach. This has created space to explore the dimensions of sex, love, hate and power in ways that allow the facts of life to emerge and be discovered as something unique and authentic to each couple. It has also created a platform from which new understandings may emerge to inform practice in the future.
Contents
Forewords
Brett Kahr,Samantha Callan
Chapter One
The Facts Of Life: An Introduction - Christopher Clulow
Chapter Two
Does Psychoanalysis Need Sexology? - Brett Kahr
Chapter Three
What Do We Mean By ‘Sex’? - Warren Colman
Chapter Four
Lively And Deathly Intercourse - Francis Grier
Chapter Five
Separated Attachments And Sexual Aliveness - Susie Orbach
Chapter Six
Dynamics And Disorders Of Sexual Desire - Christopher Clulow & Maureen Boerma
Chapter Seven
Sexual Dread And Therapist Desire - Susanna Abse
Chapter Eight
Loss Of Desire And Therapist Dread - Sandy Rix & Avi Shmueli
Chapter Nine
Loss Of Desire: A Psychosexual Case Study - Laura Green & Jane Seymour
Chapter Ten
Power Versus Love In Sadomasochistic Couple Relationships - David Hewison
Chapter Eleven
From Fear Of Intimacy To Perversion - Mary Morgan & Judith Freedman
Chapter Twelve
Perversion As Protection - Joanna Rosenthall
Chapter Thirteen
Intimacy And Sexuality In Later Life - Andrew Balfour
2009, Karnac Books
Psychotherapy with Couples
Theory and Practice at the Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies
By Stanley Ruszczynski
A thought provoking, persuasive, challenging, and above all practical guide for beginners and more experienced therapists alike. It shows the demands and complexity of marital work and is an important reminder of the interdependence of theory and practice.
Reviews
'Psychotherapy with Couples is a valuable addition to the couples therapy literature and deserves to become a classic text…Anyone interested in extending their understanding of interactional elements between partners, and between couples and therapists, will find this book absorbing reading.'
- Janice Hiller, British Journal of Medical Psychology
'The papers in this book have been written and edited with care and sensitivity. [I would] recommend it to practitioners of individual therapy as well, who might benefit from a broader understanding of the transferences between partners.'
- Ruth Berkowitz, Journal of the British Association of Psychotherapists
1993, Karnac Books
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Oedipus and the Couple
The Tavistock Clinic Series
Edited by: Francis Grier
The latest title in the Tavistock Clinic Series consists of a diverse series of contributions and reflections on couples and the Oedipus complex, from leading psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in the couples field. All contributors base their theories on a contemporary Kleinian/object-relations psychoanalytic viewpoint and this helps the reader feel that there is a basic unity to facilitate meaningful links between the ideas and themes in different chapters.
About the Book
The contributions to this volume are sufficiently diverse for each to stimulate reflections and responses from the reader in the particular area upon which the author has chosen to focus, whilst at the same time sharing a base of contemporary Kleinian/object-relations theory and a focus on the Oedipus situation. The chapters have been organised into three sections. The first three chapters are primarily theoretical. The second section comprises chapters that make use of artistic and cultural themes from the worlds of literature and film to explore Oedipal couple issues. The final section consists of chapters that are specifically clinical in their focus. The manifest focus in most chapters is on the couple, but there are variations on this theme. Part of the Tavistock Clinic Series.
The chapters have been organised into three sections. Whilst united in their focus on the Oedipal situation, the individual styles and "voices" of the authors are very varied.
Contents
Introduction
Francis Grier
Chapter One
On being able to be a couple: the importance of a "creative couple" in psychic life - Mary Morgan
Chapter Two
Reflective space in the intimate couple relationship: the "marital triangle" - Stanley Ruszczynski
Chapter Three
The couple, their marriage, and Oedipus: or, problems come in twos and threes - Andrew Balfour
Chapter Four
Coming into one's own: the oedipus complex and the couple in late adolescence - Margot Waddell
Chapter Five
Shadows of the parental couple: oedipal themes in Bergman's Fanny and Alexander - Viveka Nyberg
Chapter Six
"It seemed to have to do with something else..." Henry James' What Maise Knew and Bion's theory of thinking - Sasha Brookes
Chapter Seven
The painful truth - Monica Lanman
Chapter Eight
The oedipus complex as observed in work with couples and their children - Lisa Miller
Chapter Nine
Oedipus gets married: an investigation of a couple's shared oedipal drama - Joanna Rosenthall
Chapter Ten
No Sex couples, catastrophic change, and the primal scene - Francis Grier
2004, Karnac Books
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The Uninvited Guest
Emerging from Narcissism towards Marriage
By James V. Fisher
"A fascinating and imaginative book combining psychoanalytic theory and literature - in particular classic plays about marriage and married couples - to help couples therapists as they piece together their clients' histories and stories during the therapeutic process. A profound yet accessible guide of interest to clinicians and non-clinicians alike."
Reviews
'James Fisher takes his title from the mysterious figure of T.S. Elliot's play The Cocktail Party. He identifies himself with this theatrical representation of a 'marital therapist' in order to conduct his own review of what he convincingly tells us is Elliot's internal account of his first marriage to Vivienne High-Wood. It forms the centre-piece of his book. He does it from the vantage point of a distinguished marital psychoanalytic psychotherapist who is willing to delve into English literature as he is into the psychoanalytic literature. Readers will get the benefit of his considerable knowledge and enthusiasm for both.'
- Ronald Britton, Training and Supervising Analyst, British Psycho-Analytical Society
'The Uninvited Guests is wonderful to read at many levels. I found the book enjoyable and useful from the very first chapter on for working with individuals as well as couples. I particularly like the stretching of the mind to think about psychoanalytic theory, playwrights, literature, and couples, integrating them as a couple therapist has to integrate the couples' histories, their stories, and here-and-now of what is going on in a session. I look forward to using it in teaching couples therapists.'
- Joyce Lowenstein, Vice Chair, Psychoanalytic Object Relations Family & Couple Psychotherapy Training Program Washington School of psychiatry, Washington DC
`This is a fascinating, complex, and imaginative book. James Fisher brings together a deep thoughtfulness about the insights of psychoanalysis and its applications to work with troubled couples, with an original and closely argued reading of some classic plays about marriage. Marriage is hauntingly described as the "inheritor of the tension and the intimacy of the Oedipal drama", and this makes the marital relationship such a potent place for therapeutic intervention, as well as for exploration in drama. The book is a tour de force of clinical and theoretical thinking and will give pleasure and much food for thought to readers interested in psychoanalysis and literature.'
- Margaret Rustin, Dean of Postgraduate Studies, Tavistock & Portman clinics
`This is a profound yet accessible book of interest to clinicians and non-clinicians alike.'
- Gillian Walton, Director of Training and Clinical Services, London Marriage Guidance Clinic
Contents
Foreword
Alberto Hahn
Chapter One
The Winter's Tale: marriage and re-marriage
Chapter Two
The false-self couple: seeking truth and being true
Chapter Three
The gathering of the transference
Chapter Four
Duet for one? Two people or a couple?
Chapter Five
Separations and the capacity to mourn
Chapter Six
That which couples bring to therapy
Chapter Seven
Couple stories and couple dreams
Chapter Eight
The uninvited guest
Chapter Nine
Hell is oneself, the others merely projections
Chapter Ten
Making the best of a bad job
Chapter Eleven
A sado-masochistic folie à deux
Chapter Twelve
Termination: Othello's version of Elliot's "two ways"
1999, Karnac Books
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Couple Attachments
Theoretical and Clinical Studies
Edited by Molly Ludlum and Viveka Nyberg
“… a most welcome, refreshing approach to a field of growing importance in the application of psychodynamic principles to couple’ conflicts… a theoretically stimulating and clinically valuable book that is highly recommended to all psychotherapists working in this area.”
Otto Kernberg, MD Cornell University, NY
Synopsis
The couple relationship is at the centre of this book. The complex nature of the couple attachment is emphasized, drawing both on psychoanalytic concepts and on attachment theory. The chapters aim to integrate theory with practice and can be seen, both separately and together, as offering new insights into the intricate web of psychic fantasies, shared unconscious anxieties and external realities that shape the attachment between the couple. This book will be of great interest to all practitioners involved in couple work and can be used as a well-referenced teaching aid. It however has a much wider appeal and is to be recommended to anyone with a wish to further their appreciation of attachment as it manifests itself in the couple relationship.This collection of papers includes several chapters by TCCR staff, fellows and associates.
About the Book
The book is divided into four sections. The first focuses on ways in which the couple identity is shaped, perceived and presented. It does this through looking at how images of the couple are formed by the couple itself, the therapist, the artist, the writer and society at large.
The following section explores the impact of some of the developmental challenges that couples may encounter as part of family life, such as dealing with adolescent children, the childless older couple, and managing sibling relationships.
The third section investigates what can happen to the couple relationship when an emotional and psychic imbalance is altered, for example by encompassing racial differences, through the impact of mental ill health and the power relationship involved in prostitution.
Finally, the fourth section focuses on the importance of theory as a resource for the couple psychotherapist, outlining ways in which clinical practice can be underpinned by theory and research.
The authors are all experienced practitioners, several of whom are involved in ongoing research, attempting to further scientific understanding of couple interaction and its vicissitudes.
Reviews
'The present collection of original contributions to the Edinburgh Congress on “Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy” is a most welcome, refreshing approach to a field of growing importance in the application of psychodynamic principles to couples’ conflicts. This volume presents a broad spectrum of contributions within the common frame of a psychodynamic approach, with particular emphasis on contemporary developments in attachment theory and in object relations theory. The various authors combine in different proportions and with different, innovative approaches these two major trends within contemporary dynamic treatments. Several papers illustrate very clearly the application of attachment theory, particularly in its focus on dysregulated affect communication, and on the vicious circles derived from dysregulated affects in one or both partners, as well as the specific therapeutic approaches geared to help a couple correct and resolve dysregulated affect communications. The mostly attachment theoretical approaches also integrate, with some frequency, cognitive behavioral measures that represent an original synthesis between psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral psychotherapeutic approaches. At the other extreme of this spectrum, the relatively “purer” psychoanalytic object relations approaches rely on contemporary Kleinian and Fairbairnian thinking, and focus on the unconscious repetition in a couple’s relationship of past, pathogenic familiar relations, the unconscious repetition, in the here and now, of unresolved conflicts from the past in an unconscious effort to reactivate them with the longing for their resolution in the present. The psychodynamic approaches linking all these contributions also include, in many contributions, the consideration of the psychosocial and cultural frames within which a couple functions, and their consideration in the analysis and therapeutic approach to a couple’s conflicts. The fact that a broad variety of approaches utilizing these theoretical formulations in different proportions, clearly presenting their conceptual backgrounds as well as highly practical applications of them makes this a theoretically stimulating and clinically valuable book that is highly recommended to all psychotherapists working in this area.'
- Otto F. Kernberg, M.D.
‘Students and practitioners alike will find enormous enrichment and learning from this international collection of papers. Integrating object relations and attachment perspectives, this volume represents contemporary thinking and practice in psychodynamic couple therapy.The contributing authors are all authorities in their field and their perspectives, though emanating from different continents, have a pleasing coherence which makes this an engaging and enjoyable read.’
- Susanna Abse, Director, The Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, London
Contents
Section One
The couple in the mind: shaping, perceiving and presenting the couple identity
Section Two
The couple in the family: developmental and contextual perspectives
Section Three
Couples in rivalry: power imbalance in couple relationships
Chapter Four
The power of theory and research: the psychotherapist’s aid to thinking about the couple
Contributors
Philip A. Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan, Molly Ludlam, Viveka Nyberg, James V. Fisher, Adrian Perkel, Elspeth Morley, Jody Leader, Barbara Bianchini, Fabio Monguzzi, Noela Byrne, Jenny Berg and Penny Jools, Christopher Vincent, David Scharff, Jill Savege Scharff, David Hewison, Gullvi Sandin, Anna Kandell, Rika van den Berg, Christopher Clulow, Una McCluskey, Timothy Keogh, Maria Kourt, Charles Enfield, Sylvia Enfield
About the Editors
Viveka Nyberg is a Full Member of the SCPP and a Senior Member of the British Association of Psychotherapists. She is a Visiting Clinician/Lecturer at TCCR and works as a Couple Psychotherapist in the Adult Department, Tavistock Clinic, and as a Principal Psychotherapist in the City and East London Mental Health Trust. Her published papers include “Shadows of the Parental Couple” (in Grier, 2005, Karnac Books) and “The Fragmented Couple” (Kahr, Karnac Books, published 2007).
Molly Ludlam MA is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with individuals, couples and parents in private practice and with SIHR clinical teams. An Associated Member of SCPP, her interest in couple, family and parent-child relationships stems from experience as a secondary schoolteacher and a social worker in an NHS Child and Family Mental Health Team. She is a former chair of the Council of SIHR. Her recent publications are ‘‘The Parental Couple: Issues for Psychotherapeutic Practice”, “In Sexual and Relationship Therapy”, (2005) and “Psychotherapy for the Parents as a Couple” in D. Scharff & J. Savege Scharff, (Eds.), 2006.
2007, Karnac Books
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Brief Encounters with Couples
Some Analytic Perspectives
Edited by: Francis Grier
This book draws on different perspectives and working contexts within the psychoanalytic field to explore various aspects of brief work with couples. Contributions discuss technical issues encountered in initial consultations, cases where there has been the death of a child, brief work with parents with under-fives, treating psycho-sexual problems, providing expert opinion for the courts, brief marital psychotherapy and giving advice to parents who are contesting contact arrangements.
About the Book
Deriving from a conference organised by the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute, this volume draws the main focus of its inquiry from a few fundamental questions. In its various brief encounters, and in disparate contexts, how effective can a psychoanalytic approach be when it addresses the parental/child or adult couple relationship? What specific quality of contact can be achieved in the relationship between client(s) and therapist in shorter-term work?
This compilation of essays, written by experienced practitioners, engages directly and positively these, and other questions, demonstrating with clinical material the efficacious contribution of a psychoanalytic psychotherapy. In both the similarity and variety of responses to the complex issues explored the authors display a creative engagement and theoretical understanding that will be of great interest and stimulus to all professionals working in this field.
Contents
Foreword
Stanley Ruszczynski
Chapter One
First Contacts: the therapist's "couple state of mind" as a factor in the containment of couples seen for consultation - Mary Morgan
Chapter Two
Thoughts about the couple relationship following the death of a child - Lynne Cudmore & Dorothy Judd
Chapter Three
Brief encounters: work with parents and infants in an under-fives' counselling service - Lisa Miller
Chapter Four
Brief work with parents of infants - Isca Wittenberg
Chapter Five
Giving advice during consultations: unconscious enactment or thoughtful containment? - Christopher Vincent
Chapter Six
Emotional contact and containment in psychosexual medicine - Ruth Skrine
Chapter Seven
A psychoanalytic approach to brief marital psychotherapy - Monica Lanman & Francis Grier
Chapter Eight
The court, the couple, and the consultant: is there room for a third position? - Judith Freeman
2001, Karnac Books
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Adult Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy
The Secure Base in Practice and Research
Edited by: Christopher Clulow
Adult Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy brings research and practice perspectives to bear on the adult couple relationship, and provides a framework for assessing and working with secure and insecure partnerships. The book uses vivid illustrations from clinical and community work and offers stimulating reading for all those involved in this field who wish to re-assess their models of practice.
Contents
Part One: Conceptualising the Couple in Attachment Terms
Chapter One
Patterns of Relating in the Couple - James Fisher and Lisa Crandell
Chapter Two
Attachment Security in Adult Partnerships - Judith Crowell and Dominique Treboux
Chapter Three
Insecure Attachment and Abusive Intimate Relationships - Kim Bartholomew, Antonia Henderson and Donald Dutton
Chapter Four
A Couple Perspective on the Transmission of Attachment Patterns - Philip Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan
Part Two: Applications to Couple Psychotherapy
Chapter Five
Attachment Theory and the Therapeutic Frame - Christopher Clulow
Chapter Six
Working with Intangible Loss - Christopher Clulow, Jenny Riddell and Avi Shmueli
Chapter Seven
Clinical Reflections on Unresolved and Unclassifiable States of Mind - Christopher Vincent
Chapter Eight
Attachment, Narcissism and the Violent Couple - Christopher Clulow
Chapter Nine
Traumatic Loss and the Couple - Lynne Cudmore and Dorothy Judd
Part Three: A Secure Base for Practice
Chapter Ten
Training Partnerships: Safe Haven or Secure Base? - Felicia Olney
Chapter Eleven
Security and Creativity at Work - Anton Obholzer
Chapter Twelve
The Sense of Connection - Christopher Clulow
2000, Routledge
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