1st Edition

Families in Transformation A Psychoanalytic Approach

352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

Families in Transformation is a collection of essays by eminent scholars on the psychoanalysis of couples and families and provides a wide ranging and articulated picture of the current situation in Europe. The reader will find various psychoanalytical models applied in it: from object relations theory to group analysis to the theory of links, encountering the lively and rich French, Italian,... Read more
Series Editor’s Preface , Preface , Prologue , Introduction , Couples and Families Today , The psychical reality of linking , Intersubjective links in the family: the function of identification , The mythic narrative neo-container in psychoanalytic family therapy: shame and treason as heritage , Where is the unconscious located? Reflections on links in families and couples , The frightened couple , Adoptive families: what pathways for subjectivisation? , Transformations through repetitions of female and male representations in reconstructed families , Oedipus in the New Families , The Oedipus complex and the new generations , When the fraternal prevails over the oedipal: a possible interpretative model for modern couples , Clinical Work with Families and Couples , Couples and the perverse link , Couple and family psychoanalytic psychotherapy’s contribution to current psychoanalysis , Fraternal incest: fraternal links , Anamorphosis, sloughing of containers, and family psychical transformations , Infidelity in the couple relationship: one form of relationship suffering , The other, the stranger, the unconscious: psychoanalysis and multi-ethnic therapeutic relationships , Old and new couple secrets: how to deal with them? , Family myths * and pathological links

Biography

Pierre Benghozi