Integrative Couple Therapy in Action

Integrative Couple Therapy in Action offers a comprehensive, user-friendly guide to handling the most common problems and crisis situations seen by couple therapists.
Drawing on the latest literature and the author's experience of over 40 years, Nielsen investigates what makes certain issues, such as sex, or situations, such as extramarital affairs, so stressful for clients and challenging for therapists. Unlike most graduate programs and texts on couple therapy that focus on theory and technique, Integrated Couple Therapy in Action fills in the details. The chapters cover common presenting problems (sex, money, children, and the stresses of time, work, and simply living together) and then discuss catastrophic crisis situations (couples reeling from affairs, contemplating divorce, divorcing, or living in stepfamilies after divorcing).
Integrative Couple Therapy in Action provides one-stop shopping for readers of all skill levels interested in understanding the subject matter that bedevils so many couples.

Arthur C. Nielsen, M.D. is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine, Associate Director of the Integrative Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy Program at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, and the author of A Roadmap for Couple Therapy: Integrating Systemic, Psychodynamic, and Behavioral Approaches.

Introduction Part I: Synopsis of Integrative Couple Therapy 1.Couple Therapy 1.0 2.The First Upgrade: Focus on the Interpersonal Process 3.Psychodynamic Upgrades 4.Behavioral/Psychoeducational Upgrades 5.Sequencing Interventions 6.The Intimidator and the Novelist: An Illustration of the Integrative Model Introduction to Parts II and III: Domain-Specific Knowledge Part II: Upgrades to Address Common Problems 7.Sex 8.Children and Extended Family 9.Money 10.Domestic Problems and Division-of-Labor Disputes 11.Job Stress, Cultural Pressures, and Limited Time Part III: Upgrades to Address Common Stressful Situations 12.Extramarital Affairs 13.Couples Contemplating Divorce 14.Divorcing Couples 15.Stepfamily Couples Concluding Remarks References Index