A Three-Factor Model of Couples Therapy: Projective Identification, Couple Object Relations, and Omnipotent Control

by Robert Mendelsohn

Couple psychotherapy extends the work of the psychotherapist to the patient's most significant committed adult relationship, yet the therapy is difficult both conceptually and technically. One major reason for this difficulty is that in every couple's treatment there is a confusing array of psychological defenses as well as regressive and nonregressive couple object relations-as distinct from the object relations that each individual member brings...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498557074
• ISBN13: 9781498557078
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"