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Sarah Fels Usher - What is This Thing Called Love?: A Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Couples - 9780415433846 - V9780415433846
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What is This Thing Called Love?: A Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Couples

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Description for What is This Thing Called Love?: A Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Couples Paperback. Provides a how-to guide for carrying out psychotherapy with couples from a psychoanalytic perspective. This book draws on both early and contemporary psychoanalytic knowledge, explaining how each theory described is useful in formulating couple dynamics and in working with them. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JMM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 232.

What is This Thing Called Love? provides a clear how-to guide for carrying out psychotherapy with couples from a psychoanalytic perspective. The book draws on both early and contemporary psychoanalytic knowledge, explaining how each theory described is useful in formulating couple dynamics and in working with them. The result is an extremely practical approach, with detailed step-by-step instructions on technique, illuminated throughout by vivid case studies.

The book focuses on several key areas including:

  • An initial discussion about theories of love.
  • Progression of therapy from beginning to termination.
  • Transference and countertransference and their unique manifestations in couples therapy.
  • Comparisons between couples therapy and individual therapy.
  • Step-by-step ... Read more

What is This Thing Called Love? is enlivened with humour and humanness. It is crucial reading for psychoanalytic therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, couples therapists and students who want to learn about--or augment their skills in--this challenging modality.

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
216g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415433846
SKU
V9780415433846
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Sarah Fels Usher
Sarah Fels Usher is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Toronto. She is the President of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society, founding director of the Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program and a faculty member of the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis. Her first book, Introduction to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Technique, is a psychotherapy guide for students and beginning therapists. Sarah Usher is also ... Read more

Reviews for What is This Thing Called Love?: A Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Couples
"This book is an important contribution that will help these clinicians develop the skills necessary to work with troubled marriages. Numerous clinical case presentations bring this work to life, clearly illustrating each phase of treatment." - Lewis Aron, Director, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, USA "... this is a valuable book. There is a ... Read more

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