Love, its Meaning and Exploration in Couple Therapy
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Love, its Meaning and Exploration in Couple Therapy

  1. 250 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Love, its Meaning and Exploration in Couple Therapy

About this book

Love, its Meaning and Exploration in Couple Therapy explores essential questions about love in couple relationships and couple therapy.

The respected international contributors assembled here consider a range of topics in relation to love: its place in the consulting room, what love means to couples and whether this can be problematic, specific challenges for same-sex couples, love in non-monogamous relationships, and the impacts of cultural difference. Each chapter considers an aspect of love and psychoanalytic practice or theory with openness and curiosity, providing a valuable and vibrant perspective on this essential topic. The contributing authors offer a variety of perspectives on love reflecting different theoretical perspectives and conceptual frameworks.

Love, its Meaning and Exploration in Couple Therapy will be essential reading for all clinicians who want to understand, and find new ways of working with, love in intimate adult relationships.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2026
Print ISBN
9781032854236
9781032854250
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781040666500
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Mental Health in Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Series Page
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Dedication
  8. Table of Contents
  9. List of contributors
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Introduction
  12. 1. The fate of love in intimate relationships
  13. 2. Does love matter in the consulting room?
  14. 3. A question of true love
  15. 4. The dialectics of attachment, sexuality and love in couple relationships
  16. 5. Love is where we start from: An examination of Winnicott’s “use of an object” as it relates to mature love in the couple relationship
  17. 6. You make me feel …: The function of the transformational object in love relationships
  18. 7. Helping borderline couples find love
  19. 8. Primitive layers of love: The need or desire for the Other
  20. 9. On love, loss and longing in lesbian couple relationships
  21. 10. Obstacles to love in gay male coupling
  22. 11. All you need is love?
  23. 12. The evolution of love through psychoanalytic and Daoist perspectives
  24. 13. Somewhere There’s a Place for Us …: A cross-cultural approach to psychoanalytic psychotherapy with intercultural and interracial couples
  25. 14. Open and polyamorous relationships: Many loves, or the mad hatter’s tea party!
  26. 15. Love as a containing function in later years – or its victim
  27. Index

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