Talking With Couples: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Couple Relationship

This book describes couple therapy by a group of psychoanalytic psychotherapists who have worked for many years with families and individuals in both the private and public sectors in Italy. Each author presents an individual case, and overall, in theoretical terms, we can see the shifting emphasis away from interpreting and reconstructing the past, towards approaches that engage partners and therapists in constructing and reflecting on their encounters with each other in the present. The triangular space that is created through this process contains therapists as well as the couples with whom they talk, and invites us to revisit the essential nature of the therapeutic conversation in this light.