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Couple Therapy: The Basics provides a comprehensive introduction to couple therapy. Taking both a general overview and a psychoanalytic focus, it addresses the basic questions which both couples and those interested in becoming couple therapists can expect to ask.
List of contents
1. Introduction to couple therapy
2. What is a couple?
3. Why do couples seek therapy?
4. What is couple therapy?
5. What basic skills are required?
6. Different kinds of couple therapy
7. What is psychodynamic - psychoanalytic couple therapy?
8. Further couple therapies linked to psychoanalysis
9. First meetings with a couple
10. Ongoing meetings and challenges in couple therapy
11. Outcomes: endings and new beginnings
12. Why is supervision for important for couple therapy?
13. How can I learn more about couple therapy?
About the author
Molly Ludlam, MA, is a couple and individual psychoanalytic psychotherapist and contributor to many books and journals, and was the founding editor of Couple & Family Psychoanalysis (2011-2019). Now retired from clinical practice, and as a course teacher and examiner, she currently focuses on consulting and writing.
Summary
Couple Therapy: The Basics provides a comprehensive introduction to couple therapy. Taking both a general overview and a psychoanalytic focus, it addresses the basic questions which both couples and those interested in becoming couple therapists can expect to ask.
