Contexts And Connections An Intersubjective Approach To Couples Therapy

by Shaddock, David

• ISBN13: 9780465095704
• ISBN10: 0465095704
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-14
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

Shaddock makes sense of intersubjectivity, the functional paradigm shift in highbrow psychotherapy, as both a way of thinking about our psychological lives and a way of doing clinical work. Applying it to relational systems means investigating the experience of each partner/ member from inside his/her perspective and without judgment.The book illustrates how that approach lowers defenses and lets in insights, mutual understanding, and renewed hope; it demonstrates that treatment built on empathic awareness of contexts and connections can actually also lead to individual transformation.

Author Biography

David Shaddock, author of From Impasse to Intimacy: How Understanding Unconscious Needs Can Transform Relationships, practices psychotherapy in Oakland, California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xiii
The Myth of Isolated Therapy	1	(16)
An Overview of Intersubjectivity Theory	17	(16)
Hopes, Needs and Disappointments: The Selfobject Dimension of Couples Experience	33	(16)
Overlapping Contexts: Childhood Trauma and the Repetitive Dimension of Couples Experience	49	(20)
``No Person'' Psychology: A Dynamic Systems View of Relationships	69	(24)
The I in the Thou: The Empathic/Introspective Mode of Listening	93	(16)
Process and Cure in Couples Therapy	109	(18)
Combining Couples and Individual Therapy	127	(14)
Family Therapy	141	(18)
Breaking Cycles: Parental Therapy	159	(16)
Epilogue	175	(2)
References	177	(8)
Index	185