The Tavistock Clinic Series
Edited by: Francis Grier
The latest title in the Tavistock Clinic Series consists of a diverse series of contributions and reflections on couples and the Oedipus complex, from leading psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in the couples field. All contributors base their theories on a contemporary Kleinian/object-relations psychoanalytic viewpoint and this helps the reader feel that there is a basic unity to facilitate meaningful links between the ideas and themes in different chapters.
Synopsis:
The contributions to this volume are sufficiently diverse for each to stimulate reflections and responses from the reader in the particular area upon which the author has chosen to focus, whilst at the same time sharing a base of contemporary Kleinian/object-relations theory and a focus on the Oedipus situation. The chapters have been organised into three sections. The first three chapters are primarily theoretical. The second section comprises chapters that make use of artistic and cultural themes from the worlds of literature and film to explore Oedipal couple issues. The final section consists of chapters that are specifically clinical in their focus. The manifest focus in most chapters is on the couple, but there are variations on this theme. Part of the Tavistock Clinic Series.
The chapters have been organised into three sections. Whilst united in their focus on the Oedipal situation, the individual styles and "voices" of the authors are very varied.
Contents
Series Editor's Preface: Margot Waddell
Introduction: Francis Grier
Chapter 1: On being able to be a couple: the importance of a "creative couple" in psychic life - Mary Morgan
Chapter 2: Reflective space in the intimate couple relationship: the "marital triangle" - Stanley Ruszczynski
Chapter 3: The couple, their marriage, and Oedipus: or, problems come in twos and threes - Andrew Balfour
Chapter 4: Coming into one's own: the oedipus complex and the couple in late adolescence - Margot Waddell
Chapter 5: Shadows of the parental couple: oedipal themes in Bergman's Fanny and Alexander - Viveka Nyberg
Chapter 6: "It seemed to have to do with something else..." Henry James' What Maise Knew and Bion's theory of thinking - Sasha Brookes
Chapter 7: The painful truth - Monica Lanman
Chapter 8: The oedipus complex as observed in work with couples and their children - Lisa Miller
Chapter 9: Oedipus gets married: an investigation of a couple's shared oedipal drama - Joanna Rosenthall
Chapter 10: No Sex couples, catastrophic change, and the primal scene - Francis Grier
Editor : Francis Grier
Publisher : Karnac Books
Published : 2004
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