Couple Dynamics Psychoanalytic Perspectives in Work with the Individual, the Couple, and the Group Tavistock Clinic Series

This book presents psychoanalytic thinking about the phenomenon of the couple and couple dynamics at different levels of organization: the "couple" in the individual's internal world, the dynamics between partners in a couple relationship, and the dynamics between the couple and the group.

Series Editors’ Preface -- Introduction -- Aggression, love, and the couple -- Narcissistic problems in sharing space -- Couples and primitive processes -- Transference and enactment in the “oedipal setting” of couple psychotherapy -- The quarrelling couple: the couple’s unconscious relations and enactments -- Couples becoming parents: a clinical example -- Couple and family dynamics and triangular space in group psychotherapy -- Oscillating images: perceptions of couples in organizations -- Belonging to a body larger than one’s own: the pair in the group, the organization, and society

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Novakovic, Aleksandra