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Restoration of the Object: Mourning and Melancholia in Couples is an important and significant new reference text for clinicians, trainees and all of those involved in assisting couples with the common, yet challenging presentation of prolonged and unremitting grief. Providing an international perspective, the book gives an overview of the nature of prolonged grief through a psychoanalytic lens and includes a focus on couples who are experiencing the seemingly unbearable loss of a child, those dealing with the often unacknowledged experience of unresolved grief about the loss of a parent and those suffering complex grief following the loss of a partner. Other special therapeutic challenges, such as those associated with the issue of adjustment difficulties related to a miscarriage, are also considered. The text outlines an assessment and intervention model based on Object Relations Theory, as well as detailing the history of psychoanalytical theories of loss and its relevance to couples. The book concludes with some ideas about the importance of mourning the lost object, in all psychotherapeutic endeavours.
Contents
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Preface David Scharff
Introduction Timothy Keogh
SECTION I Theoretical understandings and clinical approaches to loss
Chapter One Timothy Keogh
Psychoanalytic understanding of loss and its relevance to couples and families
Chapter Two Elizabeth Palacios
Link Theory and Object Relations Theory: An enriched approach to working with melancholic couples
Chapter Three Cynthia Gregory-Roberts & Timothy Keogh
Assessing and formulating the significance of issues of unresolved loss in couples functioning
Chapter Four Timothy Keogh & Cynthia Gregory-Roberts
A proposed theoretical framework and model for intervention
Section II Loss in couples and families: Theory and practice
Chapter Five Anna Maria Nicolò & Stefania Tambone
Family defenses against mourning
Chapter Six Judith Pickering
Intergenerational loss in couples
Chapter Seven Catriona Wrottesley
Early loss of a parent and coupling difficulties
Chapter Eight Carl Bagnini
Loss of a pregnancy and its psychic impact
Chapter Nine Monica Vorchheimer
Loss in the everyday life of couples
Epilogue
