Short-Term Object Relations Couples Therapy : The Five-Step Model

Brief therapies have become popular in today's managed care environment, which prescribes time limits on all types of therapy and eschews the more time-intensive, open ended therapies.

Perhaps because it is one of the seemingly more complex psychoanalytical models, object relations theory for couples has not yet been adapted to a short-term model.

With this volume the author fills the void and provides a model for short-term object relations couples therapy, while at the same time offering an easy-to-read primer on object relations that gives the practitioner a step-by-step model and plenty of examples for using object relations in practice.