Keeping couples in treatment [electronic resource] : working from surface to depth / Carl Bagnini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bagnini, Carl, 1941-

Series:

Library of object relations.

Library of object relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Couples therapy.

Marital psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Jason Aronson, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Keeping Couples in Treatment provides the theory and practice tools for the beginning to seasoned individual or couple therapist striving to keep couples in couple treatment and needing an in-depth method of assessment and treatment to accomplish the task.

Contents:

Introduction

A walk in the woods' from surface to depth

Object relations couple therapy

Types of marriages encountered in couple treatment

Couple assessment and treatment of narcissistic anxieties and defenses

Infidelity and intimacy, working with the extramarital affair

Accessing the internal world of couples through their dreams

The persecution of divorce

Containment, projective process and the couple: the therapist's dream

The couple therapist's growth experience

Are we there yet? the journey and destination of keeping couples in treatment.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-77871-7

9786613689108

0-7657-0904-X

OCLC:

854519958