Couple Therapy

JIM CRAWLEY is a private practitioner of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Western Australia. He was inaugural president of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA); a senior lecturer teaching on the Master of Social Science (Counselling) course, at Edith Cowan University, Perth; and the executive director of the Marriage Guidance Council of Western Australia (now Relationships Australia WA). He is co-author of Transference and Projection: mirrors to the self and author of Couple Therapy in Australia: issues emerging from practice.JAN GRANT is programme director of the Masters and PhD programmes in Counselling at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia, and has a private psychotherapy practice. She is a member of the College of Counselling Psychologists, APS, and is a past president of SCAPE. She is co-author of Transference and Projection: mirrors to the self and co-editor of Australian Journal of Counselling Psychology.

'Crawley and Grant have produced an excellent book on couple therapy...Experienced therapists will gain a lot from this book and those considering couple work training will find it an essential read.' Angela Cooper, Therapy Today

• IntroductionThe Psychodynamics of the Couple Relationship: Object Relations TheoryThe Psychodynamics of the Couple Relationship: Self Psychology, InterSubjectivity, and Attachment TheoryThinking Systemically About the CoupleWhat About Love?AssessmentTechniqueTherapeutic ProcessThe Dynamics of Presenting ProblemsEpilogue: Surviving as a Couple Therapist.