Love Songs

Listening to Couples

AvPerrine Moran

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

The dilemma of how to be emotionally dependent on another without losing oneself underlies many issues that couples bring to therapy and is the stuff of many love songs. Its management results in different dynamics, which the chapters of this book identify. An understanding of the unconscious connections between early, primary relationships and those formed in adulthood sheds light on the experiences of couples, whether or not they enter therapy.Written in an accessible and relatable style, Perrine Moran brings psychoanalytic concepts to couple relationships through the medium of music. In her clinical work as a couple therapist, she often found herself thinking of a specific song that encapsulated something at the core of a couple. At other times, a song came to mind that captured a pattern repeated in a number of couples. Intrigued, Moran began to explore in depth the link between love songs and couples. The result is a book that focuses on different types of couple dynamics, such as disappointment, enmeshment, and difference, and the songs and case vignettes that best illustrate them.A playlist, Love Songs. Listening to Couples, is available on digital streaming services, for readers to enjoy as they turn the pages of the relevant chapters (Spotify, Amazon Music).Love Songs: Listening to Couples is ideal for practitioners and trainees working with couples and will appeal to a wide range of readers who enjoy popular music and are curious, for personal, academic or professional reasons, about couple dynamics and problematic interactions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-01-16
Mått:152 x 229 x 8 mm
Vikt:222 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Phoenix Publishing House
Antal sidor:142
Förlag:Karnac Books
ISBN:9781800132672

Utforska kategorier

Psykologi: känslor inom Psykologi och pedagogik
Freudiansk psykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik
Arbetsterapi inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Perrine Moran, MA, is a psychodynamic psychotherapist and a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She is a visiting lecturer and supervisor at Tavistock Relationships. She has taught psychoanalytic couple theory internationally as well as on two master’s programmes at Tavistock Relationships. She was a supervisor at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She is the arts editor for Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, and a member of the editorial board of the Revue of the International Association for Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. She is bilingual, works with individuals and couples in English and in French, and has a private practice in London.Before training as a psychotherapist, Perrine Moran was a lecturer in French literature at theUniversity of London, and an actress in Paris, where she ran a fringe theatre in the basementof a Cuban restaurant.

Recensioner i media

‘Why is it so difficult to live and stay together? This is a question that Perrine Moran explores in an original and challenging book where psychoanalysis meets popular culture. The narrative that unfolds is anchored in real-life stories of relationships and framed by the love songs that epitomise them. This is not a soundtrack or an illustration but a shared imaginary landscape that the readers of Love Songs: Listening to Couples are invited to navigate by ear.’

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsAbout the authorIntroduction1. Connections2. Push and pull: Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me3. Disappointment: Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right4. Enmeshment: I’ve Got You Under My Skin5. Difference: Somewhere . . .6. The unspoken: If You Could Read My Mind7. Separation: They Can’t Take That Away From MeAfterwordReferences and song, film, and stage listingsIndex