Couple Relations

A Contemporary Introduction
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-40324-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 146 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm

Reihe: Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis

In this book, Mary Morgan provides a comprehensive overview understanding of couple relations.

Taking a psychoanalytic perspective, Morgan explores some of the fundamental tensions in being part of a couple: between being an individual and a couple, relating, non-relating, and the narcissistic problem in tolerating the otherness and alienness of one’s partner. She guides the reader through managing feelings of both separateness and intimacy, issues around sex and sexuality, the tension between love and hate, and the importance of curiosity. She also elucidates key discoveries of unconscious processes in a couple relationship made by couple psychoanalysts, including unconscious choice of partner, the couple projective system, shared unconscious phantasy and beliefs, unconscious alliances, the couple’s own transference relationship and how the real ‘presence’ of an other is seen as an ‘interference’ acting on the preconceptions of the other subject.

Through Morgan’s accessible and holistic approach, drawing on decades of clinical experience, this book is an essential resource for all psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapists, counsellors working with couples, and researchers and students in Gender Studies, social sciences, psychology and the humanities.

Zielgruppe

Further/Vocational Education, Postgraduate, and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morgan, Mary

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Familientherapie, Paartherapie, Gruppentherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. An overview of the field 2. The intrapsychic and the individual within a relationship 3. The Interpersonal Part 1: Unconscious choice of partner, a couple projective system, interference and uncertainty 4. The Interpersonal Part 2: Shared Unconscious Phantasy and Beliefs, Unconscious Alliances and Curiosity 5. The Interpersonal Part 3: Narcissism & Alterity 6. The couple relationship as a third 7. Sex and Sexuality in Couple Relations 8. Love, hate and creativity

Über Autor(innen)

Mary Morgan is a psychoanalyst, a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society, a consultant Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and a Senior Fellow of Tavistock Relationships. She is also an Honorary Member of the Polish Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Society. She is the author of A Couple State of Mind: Psychoanalysis of Couples and the Tavistock Relationships Model (2018) and one of the editors of How Couple Relationships Shape our World: Clinical Practice, Research, and Policy Perspectives (2012).