Couple Dynamics Psychoanalytic Perspectives in Work with the Individual, the Couple, and the Group

This book presents psychoanalytic thinking about the phenomenon of the couple and couple dynamics at different levels of organization: the "couple" in the individual's internal world, the dynamics between partners in a couple relationship, and the dynamics between the couple and the group.

Introduction 1 Aggression, love, and the couple ?Otto F. Kernberg 9 ? 2 Narcissistic problems in sharing space ?Ronald Britton 29 ? 3 Couples and primitive processes ?R .D. Hinshelwood 43 ? 4 Transference and enactment in the "oedipal setting" ? of couple psychotherapy Andrew Balfour 59 5 The quarrelling couple: ?the couple’s unconscious relations and enactments Aleksandra Novakovic 85 ? 6 Couples becoming parents: a clinical example ?David Hewison 107 ? 7 Couple and family dynamics and triangular space ?in group psychotherapy?David Vincent 125 ? 8 Oscillating images:?perceptions of couples in organizations ?William Halton & Jenny Sprince 145 ? 9 Belonging to a body larger than one’s own: ?the pair in the group, the organization, and society?Richard Morgan-Jones 165 ?

Aleksandra Novakovic is a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a psychoanalyst. She was a Joint Head of the Inpatient & Community Psychology Service and a consultant clinical psychologist in the Adult Mental Health Psychology Service. She taught on the couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy course at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, where she worked as a core member of staff and subsequently as a Visiting Lecturer. She is currently working in the NHS Complex Care Service. She co-edited with David Bell Living on the border: psychotic processes in the individual, the couple and the group (2013).