| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 249 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-249). |
| Contents |
Should you buy this book? What's in it? -- Finding a mate: what are we looking for? -- Partner-seeking as job application -- How your infancy affects your marriage: separation and triangulation -- How your childhood affects your marriage: authority, gender, socialization, and adolescence -- The abridged Oedipus and Electra myths in plain English -- The couple's joint personality -- Imogen's story: three basic modes of couple functioning -- The couple's life cycle. The early years: forming and norming -- The early years: storming and performing -- The later period: middle years and beyond -- Major psychological forces affecting every couple -- Unconscious communication in domestic life -- Who needs therapy? -- What chance of success? |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
This book, written in plain language by an experienced, psychoanalytically-orientated therapist, is aimed at lay readers who wish to understand how couples consciously and unconsciously operate in successful and unsuccessful partnerships. It covers the central concepts involved, illustrated by (disguised) case material. The book will also be invaluable for trainers, trainees, and individual counsellors/psychotherapists wishing to extend their work into a fresh clinical area namely couple therapy. The style is lively and accessible, covering a complete range of couple issues from early union ti. |
| Subject |
Couples -- Counseling of.
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Marriage counseling.
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Marriage counseling -- Case studies.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Conflict Resolution.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bramley, Wyn. Bewitched, bothered and bewildered. London : Karnac, 2008 9781855756502 (DLC) 2009417667 (OCoLC)212894180 |
| ISBN |
9781849406109 (electronic bk.) |
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1849406103 (electronic bk.) |
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