Couples Therapy: A Nontraditional Approach

About this book

Presents an innovative approach to couples therapy based upon a nonadversary therapeutic model that encourages partners to incorporate their conflicts and fantasies into their relationship. Sets forth a critique of the psychoanalytic behavioral and systems approaches and describes techniques for patient-therapist collaboration and supportive therapeutic intervention on behalf of each partner Includes strategies for handling angry partners withdrawn partners polarized partners and patients who reject the therapists interpretations.