Couple Dynamics : Psychoanalytic Perspectives in Work with the Individual, the Couple, and the Group / Aleksandra Novakovic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Novakovic, Aleksandra, author.

Contributor:

Novakovic, Aleksandra, editor.

Series:

Tavistock Clinic series.

Tavistock Clinic Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology--Research.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor and Francis, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book presents psychoanalytic thinking about the phenomenon of the couple and couple dynamics in internal and external reality and at different levels of organisation: 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. These different fields of observation shift the focus between the figure and the ground, from the 'couple' in the individual and the individuals in the couple, to the couple in the group. Contributors bring different perspectives from theory and their therapeutic practice about how these multiple levels influence and constitute each other. Contributors: Andrew Balfour, Ronald Britton, William Halton, David Hewison, R.D. Hinshelwood, Otto Kernberg, Richard Morgan-Jones, Aleksandra Novakovic, Jenny Sprince, David Vincent"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Aggression, love, and the couple; CHAPTER TWO Narcissistic problems in sharing space; CHAPTER THREE Couples and primitive processes; CHAPTER FOUR Transference and enactment in the "oedipal setting" of couple psychotherapy; CHAPTER FIVE The quarrelling couple: the couple's unconscious relations and enactments; CHAPTER SIX Couples becoming parents: a clinical example; CHAPTER SEVEN Couple and family dynamics and triangular space in group psychotherapy

CHAPTER EIGHT Oscillating images: perceptions of couples in organizationsCHAPTER NINE Belonging to a body larger than one's own: the pair in the group, the organization, and society; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 17, 2016).

ISBN:

1-78181-625-5

0-429-91236-6

9781429898136

0-429-89813-4

0-429-47336-2

1-78241-493-2

9780429473364

OCLC:

940436736