Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Psychodynamic Couple Therapy and the Three-Factor Model: Projective Identification, Couple Object Relations, and Omnipotent Control
Chapter 2: Factor One: First Among Three: How Does Projective Identification Show Itself In Interaction With Each Other Factor?
Chapter 3: Factor Two: The Couple’s Level of Object Relations
Chapter 4: Factor Three: Omnipotent Control
Chapter 5: Theoretical Implications: The Role Of Projective Identification and Unconscious Enactments
Chapter 6: Clinical and Technical Implications
Chapter 7: Clinical And Technical Innovations: Projective Identification and Special Techniques For Working With Resistance In Couple Therapy

About the Author

Robert Mendelsohn is professor of psychology at the Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University.

Reviews

A Couple’s Therapist is destined for 'déjà vu,' a career of groundhog days. Dr. Mendelsohn shares the phenomenology of his discovery process—as he understands how he comes to be (by necessity) a major player in the couple’s parasitic, symbiotic, narcissistic, sibling, or Oedipal dramas. The journey makes for compelling reading, and is inspirational. Mendelsohn’s style his inimitable, it's his and his alone. But the concepts and techniques he offers are adaptable; they may free up the thinking and practice of a contemporary couple’s therapist, no matter his or her orientation.
*Richard Billow, Adelphi University*

Bob Mendelsohn has advanced the practice of couple psychoanalysis by integrating his marvelous and unique three-factor model with Kleinian/Bionion object relations ideas about unconscious projective processes. He makes the model accessible to the reader with evocative case material. This book should be in every couple therapist's library regardless of levels of experience.
*Carl Bagnini, LCSW, BCD, The International Psychotherapy Institute; Author of Keeping Couples in Treatment: Working from Surface to Depth*