Applying Psychoanalysis to Couple Therapy: The Treatment of a Couple with Sexualized Persecutory Internal Objects Resulting from Trauma |
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Authors: | David E. Scharff |
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Affiliation: | (1) Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Georgetown University, USA;(2) International Institute of Object Relations Therapy, USA;(3) Psychoanalytic Institute, Washington, D.C |
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Abstract: | The application of psychoanalytic theory and technique to the treatment of couples has been relatively overlooked despite the long history of concern by psychoanalysts with the role of marriage in individual development and suffering. This paper uses an example of marital and sex therapy to illustrate the application of psychoanalytic object relations theory to couple therapy, and describes the way that in-depth treatment of the couple's persecutory object relations that follow severe trauma can be effectively conducted. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of issues of shame and guilt in psychoanalytic theory and their relevance to this couple. |
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Keywords: | object relations trauma couple therapy sex therapy |
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