Winner of the 2014 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship! A Relational Psychoanalytic Approach to Couples Psychotherapy presents an original model of couples treatment integrating ideas from a host of authors in relational psychoanalysis. This book addresses a vacuum in contemporary psychoanalysis devoid of a comprehensively relational way to think about the practice of psychoanalytically oriented couples treatment.
Key Features
- Original Model: Integrates ideas from various authors in relational psychoanalysis.
- Comprehensive Approach: Addresses a relational way of thinking in couples treatment.
- Three Broad Themes: Explores self experience in intimate relationships, partners' capacity for mutual recognition, and the relationship having a mind of its own.
- Non-linear Steps: Articulates treatment in six non-linear, non-hierarchical steps supported by case material.
- In-depth Exploration: Examines developmental histories, factors of gender and culture, and conflictual pasts.
Additional Information
Ringstrom's model of treatment is articulated in six steps that wed theory with practice. These steps focus on the therapist’s attunement to the partners' disparate subjectivities including the critical importance of each one's perspective on the "reality" they co-habit. The exploration of their developmental histories leads to the illumination of dissociated self-states, enriching self-actualization and facilitating mutual recognition. The book concludes with a chapter that illustrates one couple treated through all six steps and a chapter on frequently asked questions derived from over thirty years of practice, teaching, supervision, and presentations.
Specifications
- Author: Philip Ringstrom
- Award: Winner of the 2014 Goethe Award
- Focus: Relational psychoanalytic approach to couples psychotherapy
