What is This Thing Called Love?: A Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Co

Description: What is This Thing Called Love? by Sarah Fels Usher This book comprises a method of teaching psychotherapists about working with couples from a psychoanalytic perspective. The theoretical approach is broad-based, explaining how psychoanalytic theories are useful in carrying out this challenging work. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description What is This Thing Called Love? provides a clear how-to guide for carrying out psychotherapy with couples from a psychoanalytic perspective. The book draws on both early and contemporary psychoanalytic knowledge, explaining how each theory described is useful in formulating couple dynamics and in working with them. The result is an extremely practical approach, with detailed step-by-step instructions on technique, illuminated throughout by vivid case studies.The book focuses on several key areas including:An initial discussion about theories of love.Progression of therapy from beginning to termination.Transference and countertransference and their unique manifestations in couples therapy.Comparisons between couples therapy and individual therapy.Step-by-step instruction on technique.What is This Thing Called Love? is enlivened with humour and humanness. It is crucial reading for psychoanalytic therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, couples therapists and students who want to learn about--or augment their skills in--this challenging modality. Author Biography Sarah Fels Usher is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Toronto. She is the President of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society, founding director of the Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program and a faculty member of the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis. Her first book, Introduction to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Technique, is a psychotherapy guide for students and beginning therapists. Sarah Usher is also book editor of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis. Table of Contents Introduction. The Psychoanalytic Perspective. Getting Started: The First Three Sessions. Interlude: On Love. The Ongoing Therapy: Technique. Transference. Countertransference. Denouement: Working Through and Termination. References. Review "This book is an important contribution that will help these clinicians develop the skills necessary to work with troubled marriages. Numerous clinical case presentations bring this work to life, clearly illustrating each phase of treatment." - Lewis Aron, Director, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, USA "... this is a valuable book. There is a dearth of good introductory texts in the field, and despite the omissions and questions that I have highlighted, I would recommend it to clinicians who are new to the area and wish to have a helpful, practical guide alongside them as they begin the arduous but rewarding discipline of working with couples. Reading this book will, I believe, both help them to think, and stimulate further questions, as it did for me, about the complex but fascinating clinical situation of couple psychotherapy." - Andrew Balfour, Journal of Family Therapy, Vol. 31, 2009 Review Quote "This book is an important contribution that will help these clinicians develop the skills necessary to work with troubled marriages. Numerous clinical case presentations bring this work to life, clearly illustrating each phase of treatment." - Lewis Aron, Director, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, USA "... this is a valuable book. There is a dearth of good introductory texts in the field, and despite the omissions and questions that I have highlighted, I would recommend it to clinicians who are new to the area and wish to have a helpful, practical guide alongside them as they begin the arduous but rewarding discipline of working with couples. Reading this book will, I believe, both help them to think, and stimulate further questions, as it did for me, about the complex but fascinating clinical situation of couple psychotherapy."- Andrew Balfour, Journal of Family Therapy, Vol. 31, 2009 G>- Andrew Balfour, Journal of Family Therapy, Vol. 31, 2009 Details ISBN0415433843 Author Sarah Fels Usher Short Title WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE Language English ISBN-10 0415433843 ISBN-13 9780415433846 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2007 Imprint Routledge Subtitle A Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Couples Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edition 1st Birth 1940 Affiliation in private practice, Toronto, Canada Illustrations black & white illustrations DOI 10.1604/9780415433846 UK Release Date 2007-07-13 AU Release Date 2007-07-13 NZ Release Date 2007-07-13 Pages 176 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Publication Date 2007-07-13 Alternative 9780415433839 DEWEY 152.41 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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