Handbook of the Clinical Treatment of Infidelity - Katherine Milewski Hertlein, Fred P Piercy, Joseph L. Wetchler

Handbook of the Clinical Treatment of Infidelity

Buch | Softcover
234 Seiten
2005
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7890-2995-9 (ISBN)
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Reflecting on issues central to affairs, this work tells how to help couples heal, and learn from the affairs. It provides an overview of infidelity theory, research, and treatment, discussing the effect of infidelity on couples. It delineates three types of infidelity, emotional, physical, and infidelity; and reviews the role of the Internet.
Help your clients’ relationships survive infidelity!

In the Handbook of the Clinical Treatment of Infidelity, a panel of seasoned experts reflects on issues central to affairs, and on how to help couples heal and learn from them. First, editors Fred P. Piercy, Katherine M. Hertlein, and Joseph L. Wetchler provide an essential overview of infidelity theory, research, and treatment. They discuss the effect of infidelity on couples and delineate three types of infidelityemotional, physical, and infidelity including aspects of both. They review the relatively new role of the Internet in infidelity and explore infidelity within the context of comarital relationships. Finally, they discuss the overarching theories and common models used in infidelity treatment.

Also in the Handbook of the Clinical Treatment of Infidelity:



Susan M. Johnson, the co-developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), discusses affairs through the lens of attachment theory, and shows how EFT provides a way to acknowledge and express pain, remorse, and regret, and to repair this attachment bond.

David Moultrup takes a Bowenian approach to infidelity, focusing attention on the underlying dynamics of the emotional system

Frank Pittman and Tina Pittman Wagers outline cultural myths about affairs and do their share of debunking

Adrian Blow discusses how to help couples directly address their painand the challenges of the healing process

Brian Case highlights the role of apology and forgiveness in the healing process

Frank Stalfa and Catherine Hastings focus on the treatment of accusatory sufferinga spouse’s obsessive holding onto and retaliating for an affair long after it has ended, and despite the offending partner’s repeated apologies and attempts at restitution

Don-David Lusterman discusses individuals who have suppressed or denied traumatic stress reactions to their partner’s affair, and how to help them

Scott Johnson discusses myths about affairs, from who is cheating on whom, to whether men really have more affairs than women, to the blame-filled language of affairs, betrayal, and infidelity, asking us to think more systematically about affairs and to see the dynamics of extra dyadic relationships as more complex and nuanced than they are typically portrayed in the literature

Joan Atwood provides an overview of Internet infidelitythe factors influencing one’s involvement in this type of infidelity, and some considerations for therapists

Tim Nelson, Fred Piercy, and Doug Sprenkle report on the results of a multi-phase Delphi study that explored what infidelity experts say are the critical issues, interventions, and gender differences in the treatment of Internet infidelity

Monica Whitty and Adrian Carr draw upon Klein’s object relations theory and discuss how this might influence the way people rationalize their Internet infidelity

Emily Brown outlines the concept of the Split Self Affairdiscussing its origins, characteristics, and implications for individuals and couples, and providing detailed information on how to work with these couples in therapy

Michael Bettinger presents extra dyadic relationship as a fact, rather than a problem, within many gay male relationshipsa discussion that shows how gay male polyamory can work as an alternative to the heterosexual model of emotional and sexual exclusivity in romantic dyadic relationships

Katherine Hertlein and Gary Skaggs report on the results of a study that assessed the level of differentiation and one’s engagement in extra dyadic relationships

The Handbook of the Clinical Treatment of Infidelity is essential reading for today’s (and tomorrow’s) clinicians who work with couples. Make it a p

Katherine Milewski Hertlein, Fred P Piercy, Joseph L. Wetchler

Acknowledgments

Introduction (Fred P. Piercy, Katherine M. Hertlein, and Joseph L. Wetchler)

Infidelity: An Overview (Katherine M. Hertlein, Joseph L. Wetchler, and Fred P. Piercy)

CLINICAL MODELS

Broken Bonds: An Emotionally Focused Approach to Infidelity (Susan M. Johnson)

Undercurrents (David Moultrup)

Healing the Wounds of Infidelity Through the Healing Power of Apology and Forgiveness (Brian Case)

Split Self Affairs and Their Treatment (Emily M. Brown)

Marital Infidelity: The Effects of Delayed Traumatic Reaction (Don-David Lusterman)

Accusatory Suffering in the Offended Spouse (Frank Stalfa and Catherine Hastings)

Face It Head On: Helping A Couple Move Through the Painful and Pernicious Effects of Infidelity (Adrian J. Blow)

INTERNET INFIDELITY

Taking the Good with the Bad: Applying Klein’s Work to Further Our Understandings of Cyber-Cheating (Monica T. Whitty and Adrian N. Carr)

Cyber-Affairs: What’s the Big Deal? Therapeutic Considerations (Joan D. Atwood)

SPECIAL ISSUES

The Relationship, If Any, Between Marriage and Infidelity (Frank S. Pittman III and Tina Pittman Wagers)

A Family Systems Approach to Working with Sexually Open Gay Male Couples (Michael Bettinger)

Your Cheatin’ Heart: Myths and Absurdities About Extradyadic Relationships (Scott Johnson)

RESEARCH

Internet Infidelity: A Multi-Phase Delphi Study (Tim Nelson, Fred P. Piercy, and Douglas H. Sprenkle)

Assessing the Relationship Between Differentiation and Infidelity: A Structural Equation Model (Katherine M. Hertlein and Gary Skaggs)

Index

Reference Notes Included

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.12.2005
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 430 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10 0-7890-2995-2 / 0789029952
ISBN-13 978-0-7890-2995-9 / 9780789029959
Zustand Neuware
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