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Repairing Intimacy »

Authors: Judith Siegel
ISBN-13: 9780876684597, ISBN-10: 0876684592
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
Date Published: October 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Judith Siegel

Book Synopsis

By drawing upon object relations concepts, the couples therapist is able to work with both the intrapsychic makeup of the partners and their ways of relating as a couple.

	Acknowledgment
	Preface
	Introduction
Pt. I	Object Relations Theory
1	Application of Object Relations Theory to Marital Treatment	3
2	The Content of the Representational World	9
3	The Functions of the Representational World	23
4	Investing Resources in the New Object	27
5	The Structure of the Representational World	35
6	Boundaries in the Marital Relationship	51
7	Splitting and Marital Stability	55
8	The Couple in Context	59
Pt. II	Practice: The Beginning Phase
9	Engaging the Couple in Treatment	69
10	Creating the Holding Environment	73
11	Assessing the Couple's Commitment	81
12	Instilling Hope	87
13	Analysis of Projective Identifications	93
14	Analysis of Countertransference	103
15	Modifying the Splitting	109
16	Empathic Listening	115
17	Setting Limits on Destructive Behavior	125
Pt. III	Practice: The Middle Phase
18	Stabilizing versus Insight-Oriented Treatment	133
19	Long-Term Stabilizing Treatment	137
20	Short-Term Stabilizing Treatment	155
21	Insight-Oriented Treatment	167
Pt. IV	Practice: Termination
22	Planned Termination	183
23	Premature Termination	197
Pt. V	Treatment Issues
24	Conjoint versus Concurrent Treatment	207
25	Collateral Marital Treatment	233
26	Reaching the Couple through Family or Individual Therapy	245
27	The Outcome of Successful Marital Treatment	255
	References	259
	Index	269

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