Repairing Intimacy: An Object Relations Approach to Couples Therapy

by Judith P. Siegel

Book Overview

Couples therapy is greatly enhanced when both the intrapsychic and interpersonal realms can be utilized. Object relations theory allows linkages between the spouses' subjective realities and their relationship in a way that allows the two worlds to be mutually informing. In Repairing Intimacy the theories of the American object relations theorists are applied to couple dynamics. The representational world is used to explain how primitive defense mechanisms...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876684592
• ISBN13: 9780876684597
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"

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