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Scharff, David E.

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“…If this is not taken into account in the choice of a suitable treatment, the intersubjective dimension might be neglected in individual work. Since each partner has become closely associated with the other's painful internal objects, conjoint psychoanalytic couple therapy has the potential of dealing with deeply ingrained, largely unconscious constellations that are usually thought to be treatable only by means of psychoanalysis or intensive individual analytic psychotherapy (Scharff, 2001). Nevertheless, it seems clear that conjoint treatments are vastly superior to individual treatments for couple distress (Gurman, 1978).…”

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“…Zeitner (2003, p. 349) describes the typical ways in which couple consultation and therapy are practiced by psychoanalysts as a “supplemental or even second-rate treatment which is palliative, supportive, informative, or preparatory for the real therapy—psychoanalysis or psychotherapy,” a view which shows that couple treatment is not held in high esteem by some psychoanalysts. However, couple therapy has the potential to provide valuable insights concerning individual and shared psychic organization, and also the dynamic functioning of marriage (Scharff, 2001).…”

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Couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy as the treatment of choice: Indications, challenges and benefits.

Aznar-Martínez

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Davins

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Psychoanalytic Psychology

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Including couple treatment in psychoanalysis has required the setting of new parameters beyond the classical psychoanalytical setting, in which the treatment is individual. This article aims to define the clinical criteria for, and benefits of, recommending couple treatment rather than individual psychoanalysis or psychotherapy, and to identify the challenges and demands that this has entailed for psychoanalysis, from the standpoint of the analysis itself and also that of the therapeutic relationship. Couple therapy is a very complex endeavor since a host of factors must be borne in mind. The present paper discusses the specific features of these factors and how they influence the diverse mechanisms in the analytical relationship. A clinical vignette is included in order to demonstrate the mechanisms that influence therapeutic work in couple psychoanalytic treatment.

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