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Short-Term Object Relations Couples Therapy

The Five-Step Model

James M Donovan author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:23rd Jun '15

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Brief therapies have become popular-indeed a necessity-in today's managed care environment. Perhaps because it is one of the more complex psychoanalytical models, object relations theory for couples has not been adapted to a short-term model until now. In this volume, James Donovan provides a model for short-term object relations couples therapy, while at the same time offering an easy-to-read primer on object relations that gives the practitioner a step-by-step model replete with examples for using object relations in practice. The goal of this short-term therapy is that couples emerge with an awareness of these internalized object relations and their significance. This book builds on previously successful couples work by advising the therapist to focus on the core, recurring impasse that threatens the couples relationship and stirs old wounds, and gives detailed intervention strategies that focus on the mediation and resolution of the core fight. The five-step model outlines the ways to dismantle the conflict at the levels of the individual and the couple. Donovan integrates aspects of other successful couples therapies into his model in order to broaden its applicability to a greater diversity of treatment situations.

"This is one of the best books about any kind of psychotherapy that I have read in my forty years as a psychiatric educator; I consider it a "must read" for every trainee in psychiatry, psychology and psychiatric social work, and a very helpful addition to any active clinician's library." -- Jonathan Borus, Psychiatrist in Chief, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

ISBN: 9781138869639

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 385g

304 pages