What Makes Us Stay Together?: Attachment and the Outcomes of Couple Relationships Contributor(s): Castellano, Rosetta (Author), Velotti, Patrizia (Author), Zavattini, Giulio Cesare (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367102315 ISBN-13: 9780367102319 Publisher: Routledge
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: July 2019 Click for more in this series: Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychotherapy - Couples & Family - Psychology | Mental Health |
Dewey: 155.645 |
Series: Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" L (1.05 lbs) 174 pages |
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Publisher Description: In recent years commentators have speculated on the "collapse" of the couple and the family, highlighting the increasing fragility of couple relationships making them vulnerable to crises and break ups. Now, more than ever, and prompted by changes that have shaken our assumptions about socio/cultural context, the reasons that make couple relationships unstable are sought in the negotiations and redefinitions required by the changes themselves. New types of families are emerging and consequently new issues are being raised about the dynamics of family relationships. This book underlines the role of attachment as a central motivational system in couple relationships, and focuses on the relationship between past and present experiences in determining choices, perceptions, and feelings in couple relationships. It considers what other motivational systems interact with attachment in constituting a couple's dynamics, and looks at aspects more directly experienced by couples: in particular, how they feel about their relationship, especially in terms of the degree of intimacy between them (something that attachment theorists might look at in evaluating how "good" a relationship is). |
Contributor Bio(s): Castellano, Rosetta: - Rosetta Castellano received both her PhD degree in Dynamic, Clinical and Developmental Psychology and her PsyD in Clinical Psychology from Sapienza University, Rome. She has also attended the Institute of Self Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis (ISIPSÉ) in Rome, and is a member of the AAPI and the International Self Psychology Roster. Her research interest is focused on attachment, psychotherapy, and infant research. She is currently in private practice in Avellino and Naples (Italy), specializing in adult psychoanalysis and mother-infant treatment. |
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