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About this book
The dilemma of how to be emotionally dependent on another without losing oneself underlies many issues that couples bring to therapy and is the stuff of many love songs. Its management results in different dynamics, which the chapters of this book identify. An understanding of the unconscious connections between early, primary relationships and those formed in adulthood sheds light on the experiences of couples, whether or not they enter therapy.
Written in an accessible and relatable style, Perrine Moran brings psychoanalytic concepts to couple relationships through the medium of music. In her clinical work as a couple therapist, she often found herself thinking of a specific song that encapsulated something at the core of a couple. At other times, a song came to mind that captured a pattern repeated in a number of couples. Intrigued, Moran began to explore in depth the link between love songs and couples. The result is a book that focuses on different types of couple dynamics, such as disappointment, enmeshment, and difference, and the songs and case vignettes that best illustrate them.
A playlist, Love Songs. Listening to Couples, is available on digital streaming services, for readers to enjoy as they turn the pages of the relevant chapters( Spotify, Amazon Music ).
Love Songs: Listening to Couples is ideal for practitioners and trainees working with couples and will appeal to a wide range of readers who enjoy popular music and are curious, for personal, academic or professional reasons, about couple dynamics and problematic interactions.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- About the author
- Introduction
- 1. Connections
- 2. Push and pull: Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
- 3. Disappointment: Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
- 4. Enmeshment: I've Got You Under My Skin
- 5. Difference: Somewhere…
- 6. The unspoken: If You Could Read My Mind
- 7. Separation: They Can't Take That Away From Me
- Afterword
- References and Song, Film, and Stage Listings
- Index