Sex, Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy - Psychoanalytic Perspectives

About the author

Christopher Clulow, PhD, is a Senior Fellow of the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, London, where he works as a visiting lecturer and researcher. He has published extensively on marriage, partnerships, parenthood and couple psychotherapy, most recently from an attachment perspective. He has a long history of contributing to thinking about the processes involved in ending relationships, and his most recent work has involved heading up a project identifying competences for treating depression through couple therapy under the Department of Health's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies initiative. He has also recently consulted to and evaluated interventions provided by a mental health agency to reduce depression in parents of young children. He is a founding member and past Deputy Chair of the British Society of Couple Psychotherapists and Counsellors and a member of the editorial board for the journal 'Couple and Family Psychoanalysis'.

Summary

What, from a psychoanalytic point of view, constitute the 'facts of life'? What are the stories that our professional mentors tell us about the psychological equivalents of the 'birds and the bees'? This book explores sexuality in the contexts of couple relationships and psychotherapy.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Clulow, Christopher (Director Clulow
• Assisted by: Christopher Clulow (Editor), Clulow Christopher (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367324964
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32496-4
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / General, Family psychology, Psychotherapy, Child & developmental psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, attachment theory, Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy