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Attachment theory; Containment; Defenses; Depth psychology; Diphasic sexuality; Drive theory; Emergent systems; Freudian psychology; Mental apparatus; Object relations; Oedipal enactments; Phantasy and fantasy; Projective identification; Psychoanalytic systems; Relational theory; Repetition compulsion; Transference-counter-transference; Unconscious gridlocks
Introduction
Psychoanalytic couple and family therapy challenges the clinician to take a conceptual journey through the core underlying precepts, research, and theory which lies at the foundation of the richly textured and complex field of psychoanalytical thinking. Without some of the foundational theory, contemporary methods would make little sense to an informed reader. Accordingly, some of the core theory and concepts that underpin psychoanalysis as it has evolved to be incorporated into modern theory of emergent couple and family systems are provided in this entry. This theoretical and evidentiary buildup will...
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Perkel, A.K. (2017). Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Therapy. In: Lebow, J., Chambers, A., Breunlin, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_36-1
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