Couple Relations - A Contemporary Introduction

In this book, Mary Morgan provides a comprehensive overview understanding of couple relations.

List of contents

Introduction 1. An overview of the field 2. The intrapsychic and the individual within a relationship 3. The Interpersonal Part 1: Unconscious choice of partner, a couple projective system, interference and uncertainty 4. The Interpersonal Part 2: Shared Unconscious Phantasy and Beliefs, Unconscious Alliances and Curiosity 5. The Interpersonal Part 3: Narcissism & Alterity 6. The couple relationship as a third 7. Sex and Sexuality in Couple Relations 8. Love, hate and creativity

About the author

Mary Morgan is a psychoanalyst, a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society, a consultant Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and a Senior Fellow of Tavistock Relationships. She is also an Honorary Member of the Polish Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Society. She is the author of A Couple State of Mind: Psychoanalysis of Couples and the Tavistock Relationships Model (2018) and one of the editors of How Couple Relationships Shape our World: Clinical Practice, Research, and Policy Perspectives (2012).

Product details

• Authors: Mary Morgan, Morgan Mary
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 26.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032403243
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3240324-3
• No. of pages: 146
• Series: Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Couples & Family, PSYCHOLOGY / Interpersonal Relations, Family psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, Couple and Family psychology