num_pages: 248
description: Presents an innovative approach to couples therapy based upon a nonadversary therapeutic model that encourages partners to incorporate their conflicts and fantasies into their relationship. Sets forth a critique of the psychoanalytic, behavioral, and systems approaches and describes techniques for patient-therapist collaboration and supportive therapeutic intervention on behalf of each partner, Includes strategies for handling angry partners, withdrawn partners, polarized partners, and patients who reject the therapist's interpretations.
language: English
title: Couples Therapy: A Nontraditional Approach
titlecomplete: Couples Therapy: A Nontraditional Approach
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Wiley