Couple Dynamics

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