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The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis

About the Book Series

The library offers the best of psychoanalytically informed writing on adult partnerships and couple psychotherapy.

16 Series Titles


What Makes Us Stay Together? Attachment and the Outcomes of Couple Relationships

What Makes Us Stay Together?: Attachment and the Outcomes of Couple Relationships

1st Edition

By Rosetta Castellano, Patrizia Velotti, Giulio Cesare Zavattini
January 21, 2014

In recent years commentators have speculated on the "collapse" of the couple and the family, highlighting the increasing fragility of couple relationships making them vulnerable to crises and break ups. Now, more than ever, and prompted by changes that have shaken our assumptions about socio/...

Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy Foundations of Theory and Practice

Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy: Foundations of Theory and Practice

1st Edition

Edited By David E. Scharff, Jill Savege Scharff
January 17, 2014

In this time of vulnerable marriages and partnerships, many couples seek help for their relationships. Psychoanalytic couple therapy is a growing application of psychoanalysis for which training is not usually offered in most psychoanalytic and analytic psychotherapy programs.This book is both an ...

How Couple Relationships Shape our World Clinical Practice, Research, and Policy Perspectives

How Couple Relationships Shape our World: Clinical Practice, Research, and Policy Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Andrew Balfour, Mary Morgan, Christopher Vincent
December 31, 2012

This book is about the importance of the couple relationship in the broadest terms. It draws on clinical researches into the inner lived world of adult couples, empirical developmental research into children and parenting, as well as the legal setting when relationships break down. It aims to ...

Sex, Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Sex, Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy: Psychoanalytic Perspectives

1st Edition

By Christopher Clulow
December 31, 2009

The contributors to this book have drawn on different mentors to provide a framework for understanding the sexual problems of the couples they see, and to inform the work they do. But whether Freud, Jung, Klein or Bowlby has been the progenitor of their own particular therapeutic narrative, the ...

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