The Ways We Love: A Developmental Approach to Treating Couples (Guilford Family Therapy Series) - Hardcover

Sharpe, Sheila A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1572305304 ISBN 13: 9781572305304

Verlag: Guilford Publications, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

This innovative volume delineates a developmental theory of love relationships that provides a comprehensive framework for treating couples. Drawing on 30 years of clinical experience, Sheila Sharpe conceptualizes marriage and other committed partnerships as comprising multiple patterns of relating that develop over time in a parallel, though interconnected, fashion. Seven universal patterns of intimate relating are identified: nurturing, merging, idealizing, devaluing, controlling, competing for superiority, and competing in love triangles. In this multifaceted formulation, each pattern has its origins in early development, is reworked in different ways throughout life, and expresses everyone's basic needs for both connection and separateness. The book describes common problems that couples encounter in the normal development of each pattern, as well as the kinds of defensive interactions that result when a couple's development is more seriously disrupted. Guided by this framework, clinicians learn ways to precisely assess and more effectively treat couples experiencing a wide range of difficulties. Clear, vivid clinical illustrations bring to life the entire process of therapy and demonstrate how the therapist's emotional reactions may be used to enhance treatment.

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Sheila A. Sharpe, PhD, specializes in psychotherapy with couples and individuals in private practice in La Jolla, California. She has published and presented several papers on a developmental object relations approach to couple therapy as well as writing on other topics. Most recently she has written two papers on sibling relationships. Dr. Sharpe teaches in the Advanced Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is also on the Guest Faculty of New Directions in Psychoanalytic Thinking, a program of the Washington Psychoanalytic Foundation. She is a member of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, the American Psychological Association, Division 39, Section VIII, and the San Diego Psychological Association.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1572305304
• ISBN 13: 9781572305304
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 356
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