New Paradigms for Treating Relationships

New Paradigms for Treating Relationships is a contemporary international perspective on the theory and practice of analytic couple and family therapy. It summarizes theory, sets it in context, and illustrates the concepts with clinical illustrations. This clearly written and engaging book is essential for practicing couple and family therapists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, teachers of psychotherapy, and students of psychoanalysis and philosophy.

List of Figures

ix

List of Tables

xi

Preface and Acknowledgments

xiii

Part 1: Family Therapy

Introduction to Part 1: Family Therapy

3

(104)

1 Models of the Mind for Couple and Family Therapy

D. Scharff

7

(12)

2 New Paradigms for Treating Relationships

19

(14)

J. Scharff and D. Scharff

3 Intrapsychic, Interpsychic, and Transpsychic Communication

33

(10)

R. Losso

4 Family Process and Individual Evolution

43

(8)

L. Gagnarli

5 Relational Family Therapy

51

(12)

R. Cvetek, K. and T. Erzar, and C. Gostecnik

6 The Family and Psychosis: Transpersonal Pathologies

63

(14)

A.M. Nicolo

7 Folie à Deux as a Model for Transpersonal Disorders

77

(10)

A. M. Nicolò

8 Psychotherapy for the Parents as a Couple

87

(12)

M. Ludlam

9 Sibling Relationships

99

(8)

S. Angel

10 Play and Family Therapy

107

(12)

J. Scharff

11 Divorce Terminable and Interminable

119

(14)

R. Losso and A. Packciarz Losso

12 Therapeutic Supervision with Families of High-Conflict Divorce

133

(14)

K. Scharff

13 Expanding the Frame in Therapy with a Stepfamily

147

(14)

C. Bagnini

14 Family Dynamics and AIDS Phobia: A Case Study

161

(12)

H.-J.Wirth

15 Consulting to a Family Business

173

(18)

M. Stadter

16 Holding On and Letting Go: From Family to Couple Therapy

191

(12)

J. Berg and P. fools

Part 2: Couple Therapy

Introduction to Part 2: Couple Therapy

203

(4)

17 A Clinical Introduction to Couple Therapy

207

(18)

D. Scharff and Y de Varela

18 Object Relations Perspective on a Phenomenological Case History

225

(28)

J Scharff and Y de Varela

19 Couple Psychotherapy and Attachment Theory

253

(14)

C. Clulow

20 Integrating Attachment Theory and Neuroscience in Couple Therapy

267

(12)

S. Goldstein and S. Thau

21 Obstacles for the Psychoanalyst in the Practice of Couple Therapy

279

(18)

R. Zietner

22 Dreams and the Introduction of a Third into the Transference Dynamic

297

(14)

A.M. Nicolò, D. Norsa, and T Carratelli

23 The Analytic Third and Cotransference in Couple Therapy

311

(12)

J. Poulton, C. Norman, and M. Stites

24 Narcissistic Disorders in Marriage

323

(22)

J. Scharff and C. Bagnini

25 Couples in Narcissistic Collusion: Sexual Fantasy and Acting Out

345

(16)

W. Ehrhardt

26 Dynamics of Sadomasochism in the Film The Night Porter

361

(14)

H. Joffe

27 Low Sexual Desire in Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Peer Marriages

375

(10)

S. Iasenza

28 A Troubled Marriage in Sex Therapy

385

(12)

N. Caruso

29 Intercultural Couple Therapy

397

(22)

J. Soncini

30 Brief Therapy with Couples and Individuals

419

(28)

M Stadter and D. Scharff

31 Containing Anxiety with Divorcing Couples

447

(12)

C. Bagnini

32 The Splitting Function of the Dyad and Containment of the Couple

459

(14)

Y de Varela

Epilogue

473

(2)

Credits

475

(4)

Index

479

(10)

About the Editors and Contributors

489

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New Paradigms for Treating Relationships

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