Couples, Intimacy Issues, and Addiction - Softcover

Brothers, Barbara Jo

 
9780789016652: Couples, Intimacy Issues, and Addiction
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0789016656 ISBN 13: 9780789016652
Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

Explore effective, innovative ways to foster healthy relationships!This thoughtful book discusses fresh and innovative ways to treat partners in distress. It suggests creative therapeutic ways to approach a range of problems and inner needs. Encompassing case studies, theoretical concepts, and original research, Couples, Intimacy Issues, and Addiction offers an intimate glimpse into the painful journey to marital healing.Couples, Intimacy Issues, and Addiction reveals the secret dynamics of marriages in trouble. It offers models for nontraditional relating, insight for handling such devastating crises as adultery, and a fascinating analysis of the marital crisis in the film Eyes Wide Shut. It shows how to use powerfully effective techniques including facilitated imagery, self-psychology, and a phasic model of handling adultery.Couples, Intimacy Issues, and Addiction addresses the tough issues that can shatter a marriage, including:

  • balancing privacy and relatedness
  • handling the intrusive memory of a late spouse
  • facing one partner’s addiction
  • healing from adultery and other disloyaltiesThough the problems presented in these pages are potentially devastating to any marriage, this book offers an attentive, respectful approach that will be beneficial to both partners. Couples, Intimacy Issues, and Addiction offers solid, tested advice on ways to encourage clients to confront their genuine needs and deal with the ghosts of the past. With these techniques, psychologists, social workers, and couples counselors can help partners on the brink of divorce can build a healthy marriage on a solid foundation of love and trust.

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Barbara Jo Brothers

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0789016656
ISBN 13 
9780789016652
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
168

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