Love, its Meaning and Exploration in Couple Therapy
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2026
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 276
- Category :
Forthcoming - Catalogue No : 98566
- ISBN 13 : 9781032854236
- ISBN 10 : 1032854235
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1: Mary Morgan - The Fate of Love in some Couple Relationships
Chapter 2: Julie Friend - Does Love Matter in the Consulting Room?
Chapter 3: Judith Pickering - A Question of True Love?
Chapter 4: Shelley Nathans - The Dialectics of Attachment, Sexuality and Love in Couple Relationships
Chapter 5: Ortal Kirson-Trilling - Love is where we start from; An Examination of Winnicott’s ‘Use of an Object’ as it Relates to Mature Love in the Couple Relationship
Chapter 6: Karolina Pniewska – You Make Me Feel…. The Function of the Transformational Object in Love Relationships
Chapter 7: Philip Stokoe - Helping Borderline Couples Find Love
Chapter 8: Timothy Keogh - Primitive Layers of Love: The Need or Desire for the Other
Chapter 9: Rachel Cooke - On Love, Loss and Longing in Lesbian Couple Relationships
Chapter 10: Gary Grossman - Obstacles to Love in Gay Male Coupling
Chapter 11: Monica Vorchheimer - All You Need Is Love?
Chapter 12: Tao Lin - The Evolution of Love Through Psychoanalytic and Daoist Perspectives
Chapter 13: Perrine Moran - Somewhere (There’s a Place for Us)…: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Intercultural and Interracial Couples
Chapter 14: Damian McCann - Open & Polyamorous Relationships: Many Loves or the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party!
Chapter 15: Christopher Vincent - Love as a Containing Function in Later Years or Its Victim

