Marriage Contracts and Couple Therapy: Hidden Forces in Intimate Relationships - Hardcover

Sager, Clifford J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0876301308 ISBN 13: 9780876301302

Publisher: Brunner-Routledge, 1976

Synopsis

Emphasises the significant role of the individual unwritten contract encompassing the expectations and promises - both conscious and unconscious - that each partner brings to a marriage or committed relationship. When expectations do not mesh, the need for therapy becomes evident.

About this title

About the Author:

Clifford J. Sager, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and Director of the Center's Marital and Family OPD. Dr. Sager is also Psychiatric Director of the Employee Consultation and Corporate Health programs of the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, and is in private practice in New York City. He is past president of the American Group Therapy Association and of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research. Dr. Sager's academic and clinical interests have focused on an integrated therapeutic approach to work with couples and families. He has authored Marriage Contracts and Couple Therapy, coauthored Treating the Remarried Family, and other books on couple and family therapy, as well as 90 articles and chapters in the scientific literature. Dr. Sager is founding co-editor of The Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy and is on the editorial board of numerous journals. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Psycho-analysis and of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Sager is the recipient of the Distinguished Professional Contribution Award for marital and family therapy of the American Association of Marital and Family Therapists and the similar award from the American Family Therapy Association.

Review:

"...a powerful therapeutic tool that can be used by therapists from different schools and different persuasions." -- (Peter A. Martin, Contemporary Psychology, 1995)

"...a valuable work, which will be helpful to therapists at all levels of training and experience." -- (Carol Nadelson, M.D. Journal American Academy
of Psychoanalysis, 1995)

"A significant work in the field of marital counseling." -- (Dorcas Fick-Mellecker Psychoanalytic Review, 1995)

"A unifying concept to the complex and confusing body of knowledge which attempts to explain marital dynamics and marital discord." -- (Paul Cameron, M.D. Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal, 1995)

About this edition

• Publisher: Brunner-Routledge
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0876301308
• ISBN 13: 9780876301302
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 335