182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
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Deriving from a conference organised by the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute, the present volume draws the main focus of its inquiry from a few fundamental questions. In its various brief encounters, and in disparate contexts, how effective can a psychoanalytic approach be when it addresses the parental/child or adult couple relationship? What specific quality of contact can be achieved in the... Read more
Foreword , Introduction , First contacts: the therapist’s “couple state of mind” as a factor in the containment of couples seen for consultations , Thoughts about the couple relationship following the death of a child , Brief encounters: work with parents and infants in an under-fives’ counselling service , Brief work with parents of infants , Giving advice during consultations: unconscious enactment or thoughtful containment? , Emotional contact and containment in psychosexual medicine , A psychoanalytic approach to brief marital psychotherapy , The court, the couple, and the consultant: is there room for a third position?
Biography
Francis Grier
