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Authors: Judith Siegel
ISBN-13: 9781568217628, ISBN-10: 1568217625
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Aronson, Jason Inc.
Date Published: December 1995
Edition: 1st Edition
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 |