Psychotherapy with Couples: Theory and Practice at the Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies PDF
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PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH COUPLES PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH COUPLES Theory and Practice at the Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies edited by Stanley Ruszczy ns ki Foreword by David E. Scharff London KARNAC BOOKS Chapter 3: lines from "Here on the cropped grass of the narrow ridge I stand" (1933) by W.H. Auden; from The English Auden: Poems, Essays and Dramatic Writings 1927-1939, edited by Edward Mendelson. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber. Also from Collected Poems by W.H. Auden. Copyright 1937 and renewed 1965 by W.H. Auden. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc. Chapter 9: lines from Cat f Eye by Margaret Attwood, copyright 1988 O.W.T oad Limited; used by permission of the Canadian publishers, McClelland and Steward, Toronto, and by permission of Bantam-Doubleday-Dell Publishing Group, Inc. Chapter 9: lines from A Passage to India by E.M. Forster. Used by permission of Kings College, Cambridge, and the Society of Authors as the literary representatives of the E.M. Forster Estate. Chapter 9: lines from The Road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively, published by William Heinemann. Used by permission of Reed Book Services and by permission of Grove Press, Inc. Chapter 9: lines from Porky by Deborah Moggach. Published by Jonathan Cape. Used by permission of Random Century Group and by permission of Curtis Brown Group Limited. Copyright Deborah Moggach 1983. Published in 1993 by H. Karnac (Books) Ltd. 6 Pembroke Buildings London NW 10 6RE Second Impression 1994 Reprinted 2005 Copyright 8 1993 by the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Psychotherapy with Couples: Theory and Practice at the Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies I. Ruszczynski, Stanley P. 616 .89 ISBN: 1 85575 045 7 I would like to express my thanks to Robert Young, editor and publisher of Free Association Books, for his kind permission to republish Enid Balint's article 'Unconscious Communications Between Husband and Wife", which he is to include amongst the collected papers of Enid Balint (Before I Was I: Psycho- analysts and the Imagination, edited by Juliet Mitchell and Michael Parsons. kee Association Books. 1993). I am also grateful to Tavistock Publications for their kind permission to republish Alison Lyons' article, "Therapeutlc Interventions in Relation to the Institution of Marriagew,w hich had previously been published in Support, Innovation and Autonomy: Tavistock Clfnlc Golden Jubilee Papers (1973). edited by Dr Robert Gos- ling, for whose generous permission I am also grateful. I am indebted to Margaret Wilkinson, friend and colleague of the late Alison Lyons, who gave me access to all her unpub- lished papers, amongst which I found Alison Lyons' article, 'Husbands and Wives: The Mysterious Choice". Sincere thanks are due to Evelyn Cleavely and Janet Mattinson, who made Ume in their busy post-retirement schedules to revise their papers which had previously been presented as lectures. I also ~i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS give thanks to my current colleagues, Warren Colman and James Fisher, who very generously revised lectures, in the former case, and completed a previously unfinished paper, in the latter, in response to my request to them to do so. Further thanks is also due to Warren Colman for his assistance in checking the references relating to the writings of Jung and his followers: and also for reading and commenting on the Intro- ductory comments preceding parts two, three, and four of this book. Affectionate thanks are due to Douglas Woodhouse, past Chairman of the TIMS. Hls knowledge of the history, tradition, and philosophy of the Institute was carefully and generously shared with me in relation to chapter one and was much appre- ciated. Isabel Menzies Lyth offered some detailed historical comments, for which I am also very grateful. More broadly, I am grateful to all the writers, and the whole TIMS staff group, who have waited patiently whilst I have laboured towards the completion of thls book. Much thanks is due to Claire Davis, who patlently and skilfully typed vari- ous drafts and revisions of the contents of this book into the word processor. Particular gratitude and affection are due to Margaret Spooner. TIMS Administrator, whose increasingly vocal support and encouragement has been of enormous help. Finally, both personally and on behalf of TIMS, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Cesare Sacerdoti of Karnac Books, whose early interest and encouragement, subsequent advice and suggestions, and, more recently, generous patience, has made this volume possible. The highly skilled and efficient editing by Klara Klng made the final stages of the preparation of this book much less arduous than they might otherwise have been. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOREWORD David E. Scharg PREFACE PART ONE The institutional context 1 The theory and practice of the Tavlstock Institute of Marltal Studies Stanley Ruszczynski PART TWO The unconaciour contract in the couple relationship 2 Unconscious communications between husband and wife mfd Baht 3 Husbands and wives: the mysterious choice Alison Lyons 44 vii viii CONTENTS 4 Relationships: interaction, defences, and transformation Evelyn Cleauely 5 Marriage as a psychological container Warren Colman PAKC THREE The couple and the individual Introduc tion 6 Individuation in marriage Alison Lyons and Janet Mattinson 7 The individual and the couple Wmen Colman 8 The impenetrable other: ambivalence and the Oedipal conflict in work with couples James Msher 9 Betrayal of troth Janet Mattinson PART FOUR A therapeutic approach to the couple relationmhip Introduction 10 Therapeutic intervention in relation to the institution of marriage Alison Lyons 11 Thinking about and working with couples Stanley Ruszczynski REFERENCES INDEX All the contributors are past or present senior members of staff of the Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies VIMS) and have participated in the clinical, teaching, and research activities of the Institute. Enid Bdht Founder member of the TIMS in 1948 (at which time it was called the Family Discussion Bureau). Staff member and Consultant to present. Training Analyst, Brit- ish Psychoanalytical Society. Evelyn Ckauely Staff member from 1974 to 1989. having taken early retirement. Associate member of staff from 1989 to present. Organizational Consultant. Warren Colman Staff member from 1982 to present. Associate Professional Member, Society of Analytical Psychology. James FLsher Staff member from 1989 to present. Associate Member. British Association of Psychotherapists. ix
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