Couple Relations

In this book, Mary Morgan provides a comprehensive overview understanding of couple relations.

Mary Morgan is a psychoanalyst, a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society, a Consultant Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and a Senior Fellow of Tavistock Relationships. She is also an Honorary Member of the Polish Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Society. She is the author of A Couple State of Mind: Psychoanalysis of Couples and the Tavistock Relationships Model (2019) and one of the editors of How Couple Relationships Shape our World: Clinical Practice, Research, and Policy Perspectives (2012).

Introduction 1. An overview of the field 2. The intrapsychic and the individual within a relationship 3. The interpersonal: Part 1: Unconscious choice of partner, a couple projective system, interference and uncertainty 4. The interpersonal: Part 2: Shared unconscious phantasy and beliefs, unconscious alliances and curiosity 5. The interpersonal: Part 3: Narcissism and alterity 6. The couple relationship as a third 7. Sex and sexuality in couple relations 8. Love, hate and creativity