When I was presented with the opportunity to write an essay about infidelity, I was very gladFalbeit cautiousFto have a forum to discuss ideas that have been stewing in my mind for more than 25 years. Having been born and raised in Latin America, I have often felt a sense of cultural dissonance with my colleagues in the United States about this topic. Since the 1970s, when I started practicing ...

Ninety men with alcohol problems and their female partners were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 outpatient conjoint treatments: alcohol behavioral couples therapy (ABCT), ABCT with relapse prevention techniques (RP/ABCT), or ABCT with interventions encouraging Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) involvement (AA/ABCT). Couples were followed for 18 months after treatment. Across the 3 treatments, drinkers who ...

The goal of the present study was to investigate potential mechanisms of previously documented treatment effects for a brief, 5-session, problem-focused couple therapy for depression in a sample of 35 depressed women and their nondepressed husbands. The primary treatment effects were reducing women's depressive symptoms and their husbands' psychological distress and depression-specific burden. ...

Emotion-focused couple therapy (EFT-C) was introduced in the l980’s by Leslie Greenberg and Susan Johnson as an alternative to behavioral approaches which often viewed emotions, especially negative emotions, as part of the problem rather than as a powerful and necessary agent of change. The emphasis of EFT-C (Greenberg and Johnson, l988) was on creating a more secure attachment by helping the p...

In Sweden, only a few empirical studies of couple therapy have been performed. This is the hitherto most comprehensive assessment of clinical treatment. Effectiveness of treatment is reported and compared with non-clinical ratings. Initially the couples displayed marital distress, many psychiatric symptoms, dyadic interactions characterized by high criticism and a low sense of coherence. In Swe...

Relationship Enhancement Couple Therapy and Couple Group Therapy Barry G. Ginsberg’ Relationship enhancement couple and couple group therapy has remained innovative and effective for more than 40 years. This evidenced-based approach is an educational, skilltraining model designed to improve satisfaction and stability in the couple relationship. Couples learn how to be more accepting and nonjudg...

Follow-up data across 2 years were obtained on 130 of 134 couples who were originally part of a randomized clinical trial comparing traditional versus integrative behavioral couple therapy (TBCT vs. IBCT; A. Christensen et al., 2004). Both treatments produced similar levels of clinically significant improvement at 2 years posttreatment (69% of IBCT couples and 60% of TBCT couples). Both treatme...

The authors describe Fairbairn's view of the personality as a system of parts of self and object in dynamic relation, formed in the context of dependent early relationships and replayed in the intensely intimate and physical relationship of marriage. Through Klein's concept of projective identification, a spouse finds lost parts of the self in the partner, where they may flourish and be reinteg...

Title of Thesis: DIRECTION OF PARTNER PSYCHOLOGICAL AGGRESSION AND OUTCOMES OF COUPLE THERAPY: MODERATING EFFECTS OF CLIENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THERAPEUTIC GAINS Morgan Anne Childers, Master of Science, 2012 Thesis directed by: Professor Norman Epstein Department of Family Science Research has consistently found that contrary to longstanding beliefs, partner aggression, both in psychological and p...