How Couple Relationships Shape our World: Clinical Practice, Research, and Policy Perspectives (The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis)

This book is about the importance of the couple relationship in the broadest terms. It draws on clinical researches into the inner lived world of adult couples, empirical developmental research into children and parenting, as well as the legal setting when relationships break down. It aims to bridge the inner and outer worlds, showing how our most intimate relationships have vital importance at all levels, from the individual and the family, to the social setting - and explores the implications for practice and policy. Above all, it is a book about applications of clinical thinking linked with research knowledge, as tools for front line workers and policy makers alike. It draws on the tradition of applied clinical thinking and research of the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, linking current thinking with the history of ideas in each area it covers, as well as considering implications for the future."--Publisher's website COVER 1 CONTENTS 6 ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS 10 FOREWORD by Brett Kahr 18 FOREWORD by Samantha Callan 24 INTRODUCTION How couple relationships shape our world: clinical practice, research,and policy perspectives 30 CHAPTER ONE Prevention: intervening with couples at challenging family transition points 38 COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER ONE 52 CHAPTER TWO Parents as partners: how the parental relationship affects children’s psychological development 62 COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER TWO 94 CHAPTER THREE How couple therapists work with parenting issues 108 COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER THREE 122 CHAPTER FOUR The role of the family court system of England and Wales in child-related parental disputes: towards a new concept of the family justice process 128 COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER FOUR 166 CHAPTER FIVE Working therapeutically with high conflict divorce 174 COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER FIVE 196 CHAPTER SIX Depression, couple therapy, research, and government policy 206 COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER SIX 226 CHAPTER SEVEN Approaches to researching the evidence:an exploration of TCCR’s research into couple relationships and couple therapy, past and present 234 COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER SEVEN 260 CHAPTER EIGHT Couple therapy—social engineering or psychological treatment? 268 COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER EIGHT 282 CHAPTER NINE Her Majesty’s department of love? The state and support for couple and family relationships 288 COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER NINE 306 CHAPTER TEN Supervision: the interdependence of professional experience and organisational accountability 314 COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER TEN 334 INDEX 343