1st Edition
When One Wants Out And The Other Doesn't Doing Therapy With Polarized Couples
Edited By John F. Crosby
Copyright 1989
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
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For anyone who practices marriage and family therapy the author says they have one kind of client population that seems to be a modal or predominating type. For three decades he has experienced more marital situations where one of the couple wants “out” of the marriage and the other wants to “stay in” than any other type. The idea for this collection of first-person therapy... Read more
1. Polarized Couples: Behind the Façade 2. "I Do and I Don’t": Treating Systemic Ambivalence 3. The Art of Depolarization 4. The Assessment and Treatment of Polarizing Couples 5. What’s the Rush?—A Negotiated Slowdown 6. Early Fit and Faulty Fit: Object Relations in Marital Therapy 7. Power and Presence: When Complementarity Becomes Polarity 8. Therapeutic Deadlock in Impending Divorce Situations 9. The Divorce Dance: Doing Therapy with Polarized Couples 10. Marital Therapy with Polarized Couples 11. When One Wants Out and the Other Doesn’t: Assessment and Treatment 12. I Don’t Love You Anymore (or At Least I Don’t Think I Do)
Biography
John F. Crosby, Ph.D. The University of Kentucky
