Sex, Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy

Sex, Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy
Author: Christopher Clulow
Publisher: Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2019-07-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9780367324964

The contributors to this book have drawn on different mentors to provide a framework for understanding the sexual problems of the couples they see, and to inform the work they do. But whether Freud, Jung, Klein or Bowlby has been the progenitor of their own particular therapeutic narrative, the spirit of enquiry and curiosity is evident in their ap

Sex, Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy

Sex, Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy
Author: Christopher Clulow
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2018-05-08
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429904738

The contributors to this book have drawn on different mentors to provide a framework for understanding the sexual problems of the couples they see, and to inform the work they do. But whether Freud, Jung, Klein or Bowlby has been the progenitor of their own particular therapeutic narrative, the spirit of enquiry and curiosity is evident in their approach. This has created space to explore the dimensions of sex, love, hate and power in ways that allow the facts of life to emerge and be discovered as something unique and authentic to each couple. It has also created a platform from which new understandings may emerge to inform practice in the future.

Adult Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy

Adult Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy
Author: Christopher Clulow
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 113459237X

Attachment theory has triggered an explosion of research into family relationships, and has provided a conceptual basis for the work of practitioners. Adult Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy brings research and practice perspectives to bear on the adult couple relationship, and provides a framework for assessing and working with secure and insecure partnerships. Divided into three parts, the book: * looks at what is meant by secure and insecure attachment in the couple * describes how theory and research have been applied to practice, and how practice has added to the understanding of the complex problems that couples bring to therapy * examines the significance of training and the organisation of work for effective practice with couples. Using vivid illustrations from clinical and community work, Adult Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy offers stimulating reading for all those involved in this field who wish to re-assess their models of practice.

Sex, Attachment, and Couple Psychotherapy

Sex, Attachment, and Couple Psychotherapy
Author: Christopher Clulow
Publisher: Karnac Books
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2009
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781855755581

What, from a psychoanalytic point of view, constitute the facts of life? What are the stories that our professional mentors tell us about the psychological equivalents of the birds and the bees? How useful are these stories, and in what ways do they help those of us who work with couples understand and change the sexual difficulties that they present us with? Do these stories, indeed, have anything to say about sex, or might they, like the inventions of embarrassed parents, deflect our attention away from what we really need to know in relating to the sexual lives of our patients?

Attachment Processes in Couple and Family Therapy

Attachment Processes in Couple and Family Therapy
Author: Susan M. Johnson
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2005-12-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781593852924

This practical book presents cutting-edge approaches to couple and family therapy that use attachment theory as the basis for new clinical understandings. Fresh and provocative insights are provided on the nature of interactions between adult partners and among parents and children; the role of attachment in distressed and satisfying relationships; and the ways attachment-oriented interventions can address individual problems as well as marital conflict and difficult family transitions. With contributions from leading clinicians and researchers, the volume offers both general strategies and specific techniques for helping clients build stronger, more supportive relational bonds.

Attachment and Sexuality

Attachment and Sexuality
Author: Diana Diamond
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2011-06-23
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1136871438

The papers featured in Attachment and Sexuality create a dense tapestry, each forming a separate narrative strand that elucidates different configurations of the relationship between attachment and sexuality. As a whole, the volume explores the areas of convergence and divergence, opposition, and integration between these two systems. It suggests that there is a bi-directional web of influences that weaves the attachment and sexual systems together in increasingly complex ways from infancy to adulthood. The volume’s unifying thread is the idea that the attachment system, and particularly the degree of felt security, or lack thereof in relation to early attachment figures, provides a paradigm of relatedness that forms a scaffold for the developmental unfolding of sexuality in all its manifestations. Such manifestations include infantile and adult, masturbatory and mutual, and normative and perverse. Also central to the papers is the idea that the development of secure attachment is predicated, in part, on the development of the capacity for mentalization, or the ability to envision and interpret the behavior of oneself and others in terms of intentional mental states, including desires, feelings, beliefs, and motivations. Topics discussed in the book will help to shape the direction and tenor of further dialogues in the arena of attachment and sexuality.

Adult Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy

Adult Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy
Author: Christopher F. Clulow
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2001
Genre: Attachment behavior
ISBN: 9780415224154

Brings research and practice perspectives to bear on the adult couple relationship, and provides a framework for assessing and working with secure and insecure attachment.

Attachment Theory in Practice

Attachment Theory in Practice
Author: Susan M. Johnson
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2019
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 146253824X

Drawing on cutting-edge research on adult attachment--and providing an innovative roadmap for clinical practice--Susan M. Johnson argues that psychotherapy is most effective when it focuses on the healing power of emotional connection. The primary developer of emotionally focused therapy (EFT) for couples, Johnson now extends her attachment-based approach to individuals and families. The volume shows how EFT aligns perfectly with attachment theory as it provides proven techniques for treating anxiety, depression, and relationship problems. Each modality (individual, couple, and family therapy) is covered in paired chapters that respectively introduce key concepts and present an in-depth case example. Special features include instructive end-of-chapter exercises and reflection questions.

The Wiley Handbook of Sex Therapy

The Wiley Handbook of Sex Therapy
Author: Zoë D. Peterson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2017-04-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1118510372

The Wiley Handbook of Sex Therapy ist ein umfassendes und auf empirischer Basis überarbeitetes Werk zur jüngsten Theorie und Praxis in der psychotherapeutischen Behandlung sexueller Probleme quer durch alle Klientengruppen. -In vier Abschnitten werden spezifische sexuelle Fehlfunktionen, theoretische Ansätze der Sexualtherapie, die Arbeit mit der Diversität der Klienten und zukünftige Richtungen in der Sexualtherapie dargestellt. -Vertritt einen ganzheitlichen Ansatz in der Sexualtherapie, fokussiert auf die Anwendung einer Bandbreite psychotherapeutischer Theorien und Techniken mehr als nur auf die gängigen Verhaltensstrategien. -Fallstudien dokumentieren das breite Spektrum an Zuständen, die Klienten erleben können und die Sexualtherapeuten daher im Beratungsraum antreffen. -Enthält Beiträge von mehr als 60 Experten verschiedenster Fachrichtungen.

Couple Therapy

Couple Therapy
Author: Len Sperry
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2018-10-09
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1351051571

This new edition of Couples Therapy tackles four challenges currently facing the field: (1) accountability and the increasing demands for demonstrating effectiveness as a condition for reimbursement, (2) the need for practitioners to reconfigure their practice patterns in an ever-involving health-care system, (3) training mental health practitioners who have not completed marital and family therapy (MFT) programs, and (4) integrating new couples approaches and interventions into everyday clinical practice. The book offers a focused vision and successful strategies for working effectively with couples, both today and tomorrow. It incorporates the best insights from the neurosciences as well as new couples theories, research, and evidence-based interventions, introducing approaches including psychoanalytic, systemic, cognitive behavioral, Adlerian, constructivist, third wave, integrative, and mindfulness-based. Chapters also present practical applications and professional considerations, with a comprehensive look at how to work with diverse issues in couples therapy, such as substance abuse, domestic violence, sexual dysfunction, infidelity, aging, and much more. This third edition of Couples Therapy is an essential resource for students as well as mental health practitioners, social workers, and family counselors who are keen to better meet the needs of couples and the demands of the changing healthcare landscape.