Psychoanalytic Work with Families and Couples rethinks the ways in which conflicts present today in psychoanalytic consulting rooms and the nature of suffering in family, couple, and sibling bonds. Based on two major concepts, that of device (drawn from the philosophers Foucault, Deleuze, and Agamben) and that of link (developed by Berenstein and Puget), the authors have developed new approaches to clinical practice with families and couples. These approaches focus on the complexity, singularity, and immanence of patient-analyst interaction in the session.
Key Features
- Discusses changes undergone by families and couples in the last thirty years.
- Examines the effects of these changes on psychoanalytic practice.
- Explores link dynamics beyond the consulting room into other spaces such as institutions and organisations.
- Includes clinical materials from various treatment devices.
- Attests to changes in contemporary paradigms and the professional lives of psychoanalysts.
Additional Information
Attributing a link logic to suffering and to the situations that condition it implies making significant decisions regarding our clinical strategy, our choice of a device and of an interpretive path. Faithful to the idea that the clinical dimension calls for transformations, the second part, Facing Clinical Challenges, includes clinical materials that attest to changes both in contemporary paradigms and in the professional lives of psychoanalysts.
Psychoanalytic Work with Families and Couples will be of great interest to all practicing psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.
