Couple Dynamics

Psychoanalytic Perspectives in Work with the Individual, the Couple, and the Group
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78220-331-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: Tavistock Clinic Series

This book presents psychoanalytic thinking about the phenomenon of the couple and couple dynamics at different levels of organization: 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.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Novakovic, Aleksandra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Familientherapie, Paartherapie, Gruppentherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1 Aggression, love, and the couple
Otto F. Kernberg 9

2 Narcissistic problems in sharing space
Ronald Britton 29

3 Couples and primitive processes
R.D. Hinshelwood 43

4 Transference and enactment in the "oedipal setting"

of couple psychotherapy Andrew Balfour 59

5 The quarrelling couple:
the couple’s unconscious relations and enactments Aleksandra Novakovic 85

6 Couples becoming parents: a clinical example
David Hewison 107

7 Couple and family dynamics and triangular space
in group psychotherapy
David Vincent 125

8 Oscillating images:

perceptions of couples in organizations
William Halton & Jenny Sprince 145

9 Belonging to a body larger than one’s own:
the pair in the group, the organization, and society
Richard Morgan-Jones 165

Über Autor(innen)

Aleksandra Novakovic is a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a psychoanalyst. She was a Joint Head of the Inpatient & Community Psychology Service and a consultant clinical psychologist in the Adult Mental Health Psychology Service. She taught on the couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy course at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, where she worked as a core member of staff and subsequently as a Visiting Lecturer. She is currently working in the NHS Complex Care Service. She co-edited with David Bell Living on the border: psychotic processes in the individual, the couple and the group (2013).