Three-Factor Model of Couples Therapy - Projective Identification, Couple Object Relations, and Omnipotent

In A Three-Factor Model of Couples Therapy, the author presents a new schema of psychodynamic couples therapy that includes a three-factor model for understanding and treating couples. These three factors are: projective identification, couple object relations, and omnipotent control.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Psychodynamic Couple Therapy and the Three-Factor Model: Projective Identification, Couple Object Relations, and Omnipotent Control
Chapter 2: Factor One: First Among Three: How Does Projective Identification Show Itself In Interaction With Each Other Factor?
Chapter 3: Factor Two: The Couple's Level of Object Relations
Chapter 4: Factor Three: Omnipotent Control
Chapter 5: Theoretical Implications: The Role Of Projective Identification and Unconscious Enactments
Chapter 6: Clinical and Technical Implications
Chapter 7: Clinical And Technical Innovations: Projective Identification and Special Techniques For Working With Resistance In Couple Therapy

About the author

By Robert Mendelsohn - Foreword by Richard Billow

Summary

In A Three-Factor Model of Couples Therapy, the author presents a new schema of psychodynamic couples therapy that includes a three-factor model for understanding and treating couples. These three factors are: projective identification, couple object relations, and omnipotent control.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Mendelsohn
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781498557078
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5707-8
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts; Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinic; Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts; Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinic
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology