A Couple State of Mind: The Tavistock Relationships Model for the Psychoanalysis of Couples by Mary Morgan. Published by Routledge, Abingdon, 2018; 236 pp, £29.99 paperback.

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-525
Author(s):  
Andrew Williams
Keyword(s):  
Couple State ◽  
State Of Mind

Creating a family state of mind: using psychoanalytic ideas to treat families where children resist or refuse contact with a parent

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-52
Author(s):  
Kathy Sinsheimer
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Psychological Responses ◽  
Complex Treatment ◽  
Family Dynamic ◽  
Transgenerational Transmission ◽  
The Family ◽  
Transmission Of Trauma ◽  
Couple State ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Family State

Separated families, where children resist or refuse visitation with one parent, present a complex treatment picture for clinicians. Application of psychoanalytic concepts can increase the clinician's understanding of the family members' response to the familial separation and inform the clinician's treatment decisions. The concepts of couple state of mind, projective gridlock, transgenerational transmission of trauma, and Nachträglichkeit, or après coup, are proposed as useful in appreciating the family members' individual and familial psychological responses to the trauma of parental separation. Multiple clinician functions necessary in the treatment of this complex family dynamic are explicated. A case example is included. Family state of mind is proposed as a newly named function for the clinician as well as the family members.

Contemporary approaches to the encapsulation and dispersion of trauma: Holocaust trauma as a barrier to couple intimacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanni Mann-Shalvi ◽  
Caroline Sehon ◽  
Timothy Keogh
Keyword(s):  
Couple Therapy ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Lead Author ◽  
Clinical Approach ◽  
Couple Relationship ◽  
Transgenerational Trauma ◽  
Couple State ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Contemporary Approach ◽  
The Way

This article describes a contemporary approach to dealing with the encapsulation and dispersion of transgenerational trauma. It focuses on how such trauma, when undigested, can create barriers to intimacy in a couple. The lead author and couple therapist not only describes her clinical approach, but provides a theoretical framework from which to view this type of trauma and the way in which it can impact on a couple relationship. The second and third authors provide individual and shared commentaries aimed at highlighting the applicability of couple therapy to psychoanalytic work with individuals. The authors conclude that experience working with couples enriches individual psychoanalytic work as a result of the focus on the “couple state of mind” this work affords.

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