Working with Developmental Anxieties in Couple and Family Psychotherapy

The family begins with the parental couple; it is they who create the family. This book explores the way in which the child or any member of the family can carry unresolved projections arising from the parents' families of origin: their family within, and the difficulties this internal family presents for the therapist.

Part One: Theory and Practice Introduction: The Family Within: A Developmental Focus on Family and Couple Psychotherapy Penny Jools Chapter One : The Couple and Family in Mind Jenny Berg Chapter Two: The Developmental Framework Noela Byrne and Jenny Berg Chapter Three: The Dynamics of Coupledom Noela Byrne and Maria Kourt Chapter Four: Containment and its Challenges Penny Jools and Jenny Berg Chapter Five: Finding the Patient in Couple and Family Psychotherapy George Haralambous and Penny Jools Part Two: Case Studies in Developmental Anxieties Chapter Six: A Bad Moment with the Light: the Role of Autistic-Contiguous Anxieties in a Couple's Sexual Difficulties Jenny Berg Chapter Seven: Gathering Fragments: Early steps in the Evolution of a Creative Coupling Julia Meyerowitz-Katz Chapter Eight : Understanding and Working with No-sex Couples: a Developmental Perspective Lissy Abrahams Chapter Nine: Children of Oedipus: Oedipal Anxieties in Couple and Family Work Penny JoolsPart Three Chapter Ten: Couple Psychotherapy through the Lens of Attachment Noela Byrne Chapter Eleven: Learning from Experience. Laurie Lovell-Simons and Penny Jools Concluding Thoughts Penny Jools GlossaryPenny Jools