Clinical Dialogues on Psychoanalysis with Families and Couples

by David E. Scharff (Editor), Dr Monica Vorchheimer (Editor)

Overview

This book widens the scope of clinical and theoretical contributions on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis by collecting case presentations and discussions by analysts from Europe, North America, Latin America, China and Australia. The rich cross-fertilization across countries and analytic orientations stimulates cross-cultural thinking and deepens clinical exploration. In English language psychoanalysis, focus on object relations theory emphasizes internalization of early family figures in construction of the psyche, and their projective influence on others through continuing family interaction. Theories of the link and of the field explored in South America and Europe, shift focus from the internal life of the individual onto the influence of the other, and the way superordinate unconscious patterns introjected from previous generations are recreated by interacting members of families and couples, and in turn contribute to the continuing psychic evolution of individuals. Work in other cultures, such as China, brings us face to face with deep structures of thought and family organization that challenge Western psychoanalytic assumptions, even as those families are in rapid change themselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429911941
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/26/2018
Series:	The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

David E Scharff, Dr Monica Vorchheimer

Table of Contents

Series Editor’s Foreword , Preface , Introduction: global richness and global difference , Historical remarks , Narrative and family identity , When 1 + 1 is >2 and Never 3 , A valediction forbidding mourning: working with traumatic repetition in an older couple 1 , If inside wants out, if outside wants in: family and little children , Psychoanalytic crisis intervention with a Chinese family , Projective decompensation: mourning the loss of projective identifications in a couple , Working on links , Initial interviews with … a family? , A couple struggling for adulthood , Epilogue