Description
This book presents psychoanalytic thinking about the phenomenon of the couple and couple dynamics at different levels of organization: the "couple" in the individual's internal world, the dynamics between partners in a couple relationship, and the dynamics between the couple and the group.
Table of Contents
Series Editors’ Preface -- Introduction -- Aggression, love, and the couple -- Narcissistic problems in sharing space -- Couples and primitive processes -- Transference and enactment in the “oedipal setting” of couple psychotherapy -- The quarrelling couple: the couple’s unconscious relations and enactments -- Couples becoming parents: a clinical example -- Couple and family dynamics and triangular space in group psychotherapy -- Oscillating images: perceptions of couples in organizations -- Belonging to a body larger than one’s own: the pair in the group, the organization, and society
