One Couple, Four Realities Multiple Perspectives on Couple Therapy

by Chasin, Richard; Grunebaum, Henry; Herzig, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9780898624373
• ISBN10: 0898624371
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1990-08-10
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

Master clinicians Framo, Papp, Paul, and Sluzki describe and explain the separate interviews they each conducted with one couple. Nine other highly experienced therapists describe what they might have done. In a compelling conclusion, the couple give candid and intelligent accounts of the interviews from their point of view.

Table of Contents

PART I. Background
A Multitheoretical Approach to Couple Therapy: The Harvard Couple Therapy Conference and the Preparation of This Book	3	(7)
The Editors
The Couple: History and Genograms	10	(15)
PART II. The Four Demonstration Interviews
The Use of Structured Fantasy in Couple Therapy	25	(24)
Peggy Papp
Integrating Families of Origin into Couple Therapy	49	(34)
James L. Framo
Enhancing Empathy in Couples: A Transgenerational Approach	83	(23)
Norman L. Paul
Betty Byfield Paul
Systemic Blueprints in a Therapeutic Conversation	106	(23)
Carlos E. Sluzki
PART III. Treatment Approaches in Couples
Future Perfect, Past Perfect: A Positive Approach to Opening Couple Therapy	129	(16)
Richard Chasin
Sallyann Roth
A Systemic Perspective on the Opening of a Therapeutic Encounter	145	(26)
Kathy Weingarten
Object Relations and the Couple: Separation---Individuation, Intimacy, and Marriage	171	(20)
Frances Givelber
From Discourse to Dialogue: The Power of Fairness in Therapy with Couples	191	(38)
Judith Grunebaum
Treating Communication Problems from a Behavioral Perspective	229	(20)
Victoria M. Follette
Neil S. Jacobson
PART IV. Issues in Couple Therapy
Women in Couples: How Their Experience of Relationships Differs from Men's	249	(20)
Natalie S. Low
Therapists' Fantasies in Working with Couples: The Unstable Triad	269	(15)
Sharon Lamb
Rachel T. Hare-Mustin
Navigating Among the Theories: An Eclectic Approach to Couple Therapy	284	(21)
Walter Abrams
Nicholson Browning
Toward a Theory of Marital Bonds, or Why Do People Stay Married?	305	(34)
Henry Grunebaum
PART V. Retrospective Reports by the Couple and the Editors
Introduction to the Retrospective Reports	339	(10)
The Editors
One Day Later: A Report from the Couple	349	(6)
``Larry''
``Jennifer''
Six Months Later: A Follow-Up Interview	355	(18)
``Larry''
``Jennifer''
Chasin
Grunbaum
Six Years Later: A Report from the Couple	373	(14)
``Larry''
``Jennifer''
Appendix: Clinical and Ethical Reflections on Demonstration Interviews and Teaching Tapes	387	(17)
Richard Chasin
Henry Grunebaum
Margaret Herzig
Name Index	404	(4)
Subject Index	408