Couple Work, Work with Couples

Couple Work, Work with Couples provides a new exploration of psychoanalysis with couples.

Éric Smadja is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (working with adults and couples) based in Paris, France. He is a member of the Société psychanalytique de Paris and of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is also the founder of a specific training in psychoanalysis with couples and an anthropologist. In 2007, he was awarded the IPA Prize for "Exceptional Contribution made to Psychoanalytical Research".

Series editor foreword Introduction Part I: Couple work Introduction: Recalling the concept of couple work Chapter 1: Love, being in love, structural phases and psychic organisers of couples, and the work of the choice of conjugal object and its historicity Chapter 2: Couple work on the intrapsychic-individual level Chapter 3: Couple work on the intersubjective level: Constitution of an inter-transferential neurosis Chapter 4: Couple work on the groupal level Chapter 5: Couple work and temporality Part II: Work with couples Some introductory considerations Chapter 6: Suffering couples and the circumstances of consultation Chapter 7: The preliminary interviews or the "encounter" with the couple Chapter 8: The work and its technical aspects Concluding reflections and perspectives