"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"--EBL
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-299) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. The Winter's Tale: marriage and re-marriage -- 2. The false-self couple: seeking truth and being true -- 3. The gathering of the transference -- 4. Duet for one? Two people or a couple? -- 5. Separations and the capacity to mourn -- 6. That which couples bring to therapy -- 7. Couple stories and couple dreams -- 8. The uninvited guest -- 9. Hell is oneself, the others merely projections -- 10. Making the best of a bad job -- 11. A sado-masochistic folie à deux -- 12. Termination: Othello's version of Eliot's "two Ways."
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