Brief Encounters with Couples: Some Analytic Perspectives - Softcover

Grier, Francis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 185575276X ISBN 13: 9781855752764

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

Deriving from a conference organised by the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute, the present volume draws the main focus of its inquiry from a few fundamental questions. In its various brief encounters, and in disparate contexts, how effective can a psychoanalytic approach be when it addresses the parental/child or adult couple relationship? What specific quality of contact can be achieved in the relationship between client(s) and therapist in shorter-term work? This compilation of essays, written by experienced practitioners, engages directly and positively these, and other questions, demonstrating with clinical material the efficacious contribution of a psychoanalytic psychotherapy. In both the similarity and variety of responses to the complex issues explored the authors display a creative engagement and theoretical understanding that will be of great interest and stimulus to all professionals working in this field.

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Review:

'The authors demonstrate vividly how psychoanalysis as a method of gaining emotional knowledge is not restricted to individual long-term treatment but has a vital function to perform in a variety of different settings addressing a range of particular difficulties.'- Stanley Ruszczynski, from his Foreword

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Francis Grier

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 185575276X
• ISBN 13: 9781855752764
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 182