The Narcissistic / Borderline Couple: A Psychoanalytic Perspective On Marital Treatment - Hardcover

Lachkar, Joan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0876306342 ISBN 13: 9780876306345

Publisher: Routledge, 1999

Synopsis

The social isolation caused by single-parent families, decreased parental contact with children, and absence of extended families has produced a large number of narcissistic/borderline couples, in which the partners form a parasitic bond and play out a destructive drama of earlier conflicts. This volume presents an approach to treatment of such couples, based on the views of Kohut, Grotstein, Klein, Bion and other theorists. Dr. Lachkar combines clinical constructs from self psychology, object-relations theory, group psychology theory, and couples theory to produce a positive six-point systematic treatment procedure. She examines the key issues of maternal bonding, attachment, containment, empathy, and mirroring needs and discusses numerous case examples demonstrating various types of marital conflict.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0876306342
• ISBN 13: 9780876306345
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224