Engaging Couples

New Directions in Therapeutic Work with Families
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-367-00002-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis

This book is a challenge to the silos in our human services that an ‘atomised’ focus gives rise to. They are evident in the chasm that can exist between child and adult mental health care, between competing therapeutic approaches and, most importantly for this volume, in the segmentation of support for adults who are partners as well as parents.

The contributors, all with substantial experience of providing front-line services, identify the problem their intervention is designed to address, provide a conceptual justification for the approach they have used and supply evidence for its effectiveness. Vivid illustrations bring the work to life and provide examples of best practice whose relevance can readily be transported to different settings. Unusual in bringing together approaches that encompass internal and external realities in responding to the challenges of physical constraint, emotional distress and an often-volatile social environment, the contributions are assembled to highlight a common thread that can inform services at different stages of the life course. Each chapter is accompanied by a commentary from specialists in their field who elucidate and critique the key points made by the authors and help the experience of reading the book to be one of dialogue.

Engaging Couples: New Directions in Therapeutic in Work with Families explores new ways of approaching some of the key issues of contemporary family life, including depression, living with long-term conditions, inter-parental conflict and domestic abuse to name but a few, refracting them through a lens that sees our relationships as fundamental to the fabric of our lives – the most important social capital of all.

It represents essential reading for clinicians and family practitioners of all persuasions, and those that train and support them in their work.

Zielgruppe

General, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balfour, Andrew

Clulow, Christopher

Thompson, Kate

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS

FOREWORD

Brett Kahr

EDITORIAL

Andrew Balfour, Christopher Clulow and Kate Thompson

INTRODUCTION

Policy and practice contexts

Susanna Abse

CHAPTER ONE

Becoming a couple: psychoanalytic perspectives

Andrew Balfour and Mary Morgan

COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER ONE

David Hewison

CHAPTER TWO

Couples becoming parents

Christopher Clulow

COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER TWO

Marguerite Lawson Reid

CHAPTER THREE

Adopting together

Julie Humphries and Krisztina Glausius

COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER THREE

John Simmonds

CHAPTER FOUR

Working with couples in groups

Lucy Draper

COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER FOUR

Philip Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan

CHAPTER FIVE

Let’s talk about sex

Marian O’Connor

COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER FIVE

Janice Hiller

CHAPTER SIX

Couple therapy for depression

Kate Thompson

COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER SIX

Jeremy Holmes

CHAPTER SEVEN

Mentalization based couple therapy

Viveka Nyberg and Leezah Hertzmann

COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER SEVEN

Stanley Ruszczynski

CHAPTER EIGHT

Working with couple violence

Anthea Benjamin, Parmjit Chahal, Steve Mulley and Antonia Reay

COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER EIGHT

Damian McCann

CHAPTER NINE

Working with the fractured container

Avi Shmueli

COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER NINE

Christopher Vincent

CHAPTER TEN

Living Together with Dementia

Andrew Balfour and Liz Salter

COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER TEN

Jane Garner

Über Autor(innen)

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 psychotherapist. With Mary Morgan and Christopher Vincent, he co-edited How Couple Relationships Shape our World: Clinical Practice, Research and Policy Perspectives.

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 psychoanalytic couple 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.