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COUPLE THERAPIST (couple + therapist)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Psychology	50%
Humanities and Social Sciences	50%

Selected Abstracts

COMMENTARY BY A PSYCHIATRIST, SEXUAL AND COUPLE THERAPIST

BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY, Issue 3 2000
Michael Crowe
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Holding on and letting go: developmental anxieties in couples after the birth of a child

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDIES, Issue 3 2004
Jenny Berg
Abstract The authors propose a theoretical sequence for the psychological development of couples from narcissistic, autistic-contiguous and paranoid-schizoid levels to depressive position functioning. The authors illustrate their observations with vignettes from couple therapy with a husband and wife who are dealing with the impact of a third on their fragile relationship, initially in the form of their baby, subsequently his lover and lastly the couple therapist. They show how dealing with resistance and transference enables the couple to give up a shared manic defence, grieve together and move along the developmental levels to achieve a more satisfying reality. Copyright © 2004 Whurr Publishers Ltd. [source]

CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS RESEARCH: A RESOURCE FOR COUPLE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS

JOURNAL OF MARITAL AND FAMILY THERAPY, Issue 1 2004
Susan S. Hendrick
This article describes the relatively new field of close relationships research, offering a representative list of topics studied by relationships reseachers. Some of the common interests shared by both close relationships reseachers and couple and family therapists are described, with theshared emphasis on relationships as an anchor for both fields. Some representative love theories are discussed, and Love Styles theory and research are presented in considerable detail. A clinicalcase example indicates how love styles research may be employed to advantage by couple therapists, and the utility of other close relationships theories and measures for therapy is briefly discussed. [source]

Negotiated Nonmonogamy and Male Couples

FAMILY PROCESS, Issue 4 2006
MICHAEL SHERNOFF LCSW
One issue that has the potential to confound family or couples therapists working with male couples is the issue of nonmonogamy. For many therapists, sexual nonexclusivity challenges fundamental clinical assumptions that "affairs," or extra-relationship sex or romantic involvements, are symptoms of troubled relationships and are always a form of "sexual acting out." This article explores the issue of sexual exclusivity and nonexclusivity within male couples. In order to achieve both clinical and cultural competency in work with male couples, therapists need to challenge their cultural biases regarding monogamy. [source]