Couple Work, Work with Couples

Couple Work, Work with Couples provides a new exploration of psychoanalysis with couples.

Autorentext

Éric Smadja is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (working with adults and couples) based in Paris, France. He is a member of the Société psychanalytique de Paris and of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is also the founder of a specific training in psychoanalysis with couples and an anthropologist. In 2007, he was awarded the IPA Prize for "Exceptional Contribution made to Psychoanalytical Research".

Klappentext

Couple Work, Work with Couples provides a new exploration of psychoanalysis with couples.

Inhalt

Series editor foreword

Introduction

Part I: Couple work

Introduction: Recalling the concept of couple work

Chapter 1: Love, being in love, structural phases and psychic organisers of couples, and the work of the choice of conjugal object and its historicity

Chapter 2: Couple work on the intrapsychic-individual level

Chapter 3: Couple work on the intersubjective level: Constitution of an inter-transferential neurosis

Chapter 4: Couple work on the groupal level

Chapter 5: Couple work and temporality

Part II: Work with couples

Some introductory considerations

Chapter 6: Suffering couples and the circumstances of consultation

Chapter 7: The preliminary interviews or the "encounter" with the couple

Chapter 8: The work and its technical aspects

Concluding reflections and perspectives