Couple attachments theoretical and clinical studies (Karnac Books, 2007)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Our attachment to "the couple in the mind" / Molly Ludlam -- The marriage of the Macbeths / James V. Fisher -- Fusion, diffusion, de-fusion, confusion: exploring the anatomy of the couple psyche / Adrian Perkel -- When siblings become couples / Elspeth Morley -- Ghost of early sibling relationships in couples / Jody J. Leader -- Dysfunctional aspects of couple relationships observed in a therapeutic group / Barbara Bianchini and Fabio Monguzzi -- Love in a warm climate: a partnership between object relations theory and attachment theory / Noela Byrne, Jenny Berg, and Penny Jools -- An impasse in power relationships: an intersubjective view in a South African socio-cultural context / Rika van den Berg -- Touching the void: the impact of psychiatric illness on the couple / Christopher Vincent -- An exploration of the unconscious couple fit between the "detached" and the "adherent" narcissist: one couple's shared fear of madness / Viveka Nyberg -- Sex as protection against intimacy and closeness: working with buyers and sellers of sex / Gullvi Sandin and Anna Kandell -- The power of our attachment to theory--or Oedipus meets Ganesh / David Hewison -- Marriage is a strange attractor: chaos theory, a paradigm shift for couple therapy / David E. Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff -- Can attachment theory help define what is mutative in couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy? / Christopher Clulow -- Attachment therapy with couples: affect regulation and dysregulation in couple relationships; effective and ineffective responses to painful states by therapists and partners / Una McCluskey -- Psychopathology and therapeutic style: integrating object relations and attachment theory in working with borderline families / Timothy Keogh ... [et al.]