Couples Connecting
eBook - ePub

Couples Connecting

Prerequisites of Intimacy

  1. 158 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Couples Connecting

Prerequisites of Intimacy

About this book

Help clients grow into loving commitment!Making and keeping commitments is more difficult today than ever. About half of all marriages end in divorce, and serial monogamy is not uncommon. Couples Connecting: Prerequisites of Intimacy identifies the cultural and personal attitudes that impede commitment and impair intimacy, and it gives you the therapeutic tools to work with clients who don't know how to build a lasting love.Couples Connecting examines why past theories of self-actualization are now failing. Because our culture emphasizes individualistic values, people do not learn how to create and share bonds with others. Therapists must become developmental partners for clients who need to overcome failures of maturation in order to have successful, loving relationships with their partner. This essential guide offers you practical techniques and case studies, as well the theoretical underpinnings to deal with this crisis of intimacy. Couples Connecting provides specific, insightful studies on overcoming obstacles to genuine commitment, including:

  • identifying patterns of anger in distressed and nondistressed couples
  • ways to help engaged couples overcome the fear of following negative family patterns
  • using family systems theory and psychodynamics to understand developmental issues in marriage
  • suggestions for clinical practice with couples who fear intimacy
  • implications of ten essential factors in intimacyCouples Connecting will help you design and use techniques to promote personal growth and bridge gaps between clients to help couples achieve satisfying and intimate relationships.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780789011657
eBook ISBN
9781135414894
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Mental Health in Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. About The Editor
  6. Virginia Satir and Wholeness
  7. Hope, Wholeness, and Helping the Flat to Grow Round
  8. Developmental Prerequisites of Intimacy
  9. Reflections on Intimacy: A Path Toward Transformation of Self, Other and the Relationship
  10. From Projective Identification to Empathic Connection: The Transformation of a Marriage from the Inside Out
  11. Destiny or Illusion: The Impact of Family-of-Origin Patterns Among Pre-Marital Couples
  12. A Typology of Anger Profiles in Couples
  13. Who’s Afraid of Intimacy?
  14. Commitment: Implications for Couple Therapy
  15. Index