New Paradigms for Treating Relationships (The Library of Object Relations) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765704374 ISBN 13: 9780765704375

Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc., 2006

Synopsis

New Paradigms for Treating Relationships is a contemporary international perspective on the psychoanalytic theory and practice of couple and family therapy. It summarizes theory, sets it in context, and illustrates the concepts with clinical illustrations. This clearly written and engaging book is essential for practicing couple and family therapists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, teachers of psychotherapy, as well as for students of psychoanalysis and philosophy.

About this title

About the Author:

Jill Savege Scharff, M.D., co-director of the International Psychotherapy Institute, is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University, and teaches child analysis at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.
David E. Scharff, M. D., co-director of the International Psychotherapy Institute, is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University, and a teaching analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.
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Review:

With the help of many case examples, the essays explore a wide range of important topics, including divorce, stepfamilies, AIDS, family business consultation, narcissism, and sexual dysfunction. Founded on object relations theory, the discussions integrate current attachment, trauma, and neuroscience research. ...the book revises and updates psychoanalytic thinking and its application in family therapy. The application of psychoanalytical concepts, which is achieved through the many case studies offered, demystifies this therapy approach, making it accessible to both students and professionals. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students through professionals. (CHOICE)

New Paradigms for Treating Relationships brings previously unheard voices from many countries together to create a global perspective that brings depth and breadth to psychoanalytic couple and family therapy. The book demonstrates the value placed internationally on applying psychoanalytic insight to understanding family dynamics and devising treatment for families and couples. The book gives access to the illuminating ways of thinking about analytic couple and family therapy described in the Spanish, French, and German literature. It widens readers' focus while staying true to the in-depth way of working with the unconscious that is characteristic of psychoanalysis. (Sir Read Alot Book Review)

In New Paradigms for Treating Relationships the Scharffs have assembled a rich collection of psychoanalytic thinking about the family generously illustrated with case studies to show how complex abstractions are lived out and put into practice. (Michael P. Nichols author of The Lost Art of Listening)

...the editors have brought together an impressive collection of papers, which together convey something of the richness, the diversity, and the energy of an approach to work with couples and families that is generating a growing level of interest in Australia and internationally. (Jim Crawley, Psychotherapist, WA.)

In case you thought that creative psychoanalytic thinking about marital and family relationship had come to an end years ago, take another look. This new book, edited by the pre-eminent object-relations family therapists, Jill and David Scharff, is the best volume in this area to appear in many years. It will broaden and deepen the understanding of couple and family relationships of therapists of all theoretical orientations. (Alan S. Gurman Ph.D., emeritus professor of psychiatry; director of family therapy training at the University of Wisconsin Medical School)

About this edition

• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0765704374
• ISBN 13: 9780765704375
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Jill Savege Scharff, David E. Scharff