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Marriage and Its Discontents: Variations, Vexations, and Violations

Editor : Salman Akhtar, Editor : Ann Eichen, Editor : Andrew Smolar

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This book addresses the ancient topic of marriage in an innovative, fresh, and original manner. It covers a wide range of marital configurations ranging from traditional, intercultural, interracial, same-sex, perverse, and dead marriages, as well as infidelity and divorce. The conceptual journey is deeply incisive, looking straight in the eyes at the myriad pleasurable and painful phenomena associated with marriage. The result is a true rarity: a serious professional book that is hard to put down!
Hanni Mann-Shalvi, PhD Training Psychoanalyst, Israeli Psychoanalytic Society, Tel Aviv, author of From Ultrasound to Army

Covering a wide terrain and myriad configurations of the marital relationship, this well put together book takes us on a rare sojourn of academic illumination, clinical wisdom, and near-sensual excitement. More importantly, the essays contained here provide us with a deeply humane and astutely empathic understanding of love, ambivalence, dependence, and sustained loyalty. A remarkable achievement indeed!
April Fallon, PhD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, co-author of The Impact of Parenthood on the Therapeutic Relationship

The external skin that supports, or fails to support, partners in navigating the often troubled waters of couple relationships can often be neglected by therapists as they focus on internal dynamics. The editors of this American collection help redress the balance, assembling eight copiously researched and well-illustrated, psychoanalytically informed chapters interrogating the variety and vulnerabilities of relationships that take on the mantle of contemporary marriage. This expansive book will challenge therapists of all persuasions to review their assumptions about what causes couples distress and how best to help.
Christopher Clulow, PhD, Senior Fellow, Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, London, author of Sex, Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy