Keeping Couples in Treatment

Keeping Couples in Treatment provides the theory and practice tools for the beginning to seasoned individual or couple therapist striving to keep couples in couple treatment and needing an in-depth method of assessment and treatment to accomplish the task.

Carl Bagnini, LCSW, BCD is a faculty member of the Adelphi University Gordon Derner post-graduate programs in clinical supervision and couple and marital therapy, and the New York Institute for Psychotherapy Training. His clinical practice is in Port Washington, New York.

Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: A Walk in the Woods-From Surface to Depth Chapter 3: Object Relations Couple Therapy Chapter 4: Types of Marriages Encountered in Couple Treatment Chapter 5: Couple Assessment and Treatment of Narcissistic Anxieties and Defenses Chapter 6: Infidelity and Intimacy-Working with the Extramarital Affair Chapter 7: Accessing the Internal World of Couples through Their Dreams Chapter 8: The Persecution of Divorce Chapter 9: Containment, Projective Process and the Couple: The Therapist's Dream Chapter 10: The Couple Therapist's Growth Experience Chapter 11: Are We There Yet? The Journey and Destination of Keeping Couples in Treatment References About the Author