1st Edition

Intrusiveness and Intimacy in the Couple

Edited By James Fisher, Stanley Ruszczynski Copyright 1995
    176 Pages
    by Routledge

    176 Pages
    by Routledge

    A collection of papers, largely based on clinical work, which covers a range of concepts and mechanisms which are central to any psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children, adolescents, or adults. It addresses an issue which lies at the heart of human relationships, that of intimacy.

    Foreword , Introduction , Part One , Narcissistic object relating , The projective gridlock: a form of projective identification in couple relationships , From the internal parental couple to the marital relationship , Gesture and recognition: an alternative model to projective identification as a basis for couple relationships , Identity and intimacy in the couple: three kinds of identification , Part Two , Donald Meltzer in discussion

    Biography

    James Fisher