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**Winner of the 2014 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship!** __A Relational Psychoanalytic Approach to Couples Psychotherapy__ presents an original model of couples treatment integrating ideas from a host of authors in relational psychoanalysis. It also includes other psychoanalytic traditions as well as ideas from other social sciences. This book addresses a vacuum in contemporary psychoanalysis devoid of a comprehensively relational way to think about the practice of psychoanalytically oriented couples treatment. In this book,**Philip Ringstrom** sets out a theory of practice that is based on three broad themes: The actualization of self experience in an intimate relationship The partners' capacity for mutual recognition versus mutual negation The relationship having a mind of its own Based on these three themes, Ringstrom's model of treatment is articulated in six non-linear, non-hierarchical steps that wed theory with practice - each powerfully illustrated with case material. These steps initially address the therapist’s attunement to the partners' disparate subjectivities including the critical importance of each one's perspective on the "reality" they

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Author

Philip A. Ringstrom

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & francis Group

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781136826054

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Social Science, Psychology