Couple Counselling

Couple Counselling

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Introduction

The traditional British family has experienced dramatic changes in structure and dynamic patterns of functioning over the past 60 years. Developmental patterns related to love, intimacy, and relationship have shifted significantly. This entry explores the impact of environmental, economic, and social shifts on the couples and examines how couples can successfully adapt to change. The relationship to the field of life transitions counselling is explored, and theories and interventions useful to those working in the field of families in life transitions are discussed.

Entrance into a committed relationship, marriage, and first parenting has been delayed for both genders, and increased numbers of individuals remain single by choice. Most striking of all recent U.K. Census statistics is the 22% increase in one-parent families with children under 18 years if age. Patterns related to work have also shifted. For instance, fewer young adults enter a single career and remain there until retirement. People are retiring later, and many believe they will be unable to afford to stop working. Many adults have multiple career experiences throughout their work lives, and some are entering second careers at what may be considered retirement age. More young people remain in educational settings longer, and more return to the parental home, at least once, for additional financial and emotional support (Spearing, 2011, pp. 388-92).

Discussion

Dynamic Psychotherapy

Dynamic Psychotherapy is a particular approach to psychotherapy that uses psychodynamic concepts and style of communication that, depending on the type, more or less use of free association and the withdrawal of the therapist. Psychodynamic therapy is derived from psychoanalysis, which arises as a modification for the sake of brevity, through the targeting of intervention in certain conflicts highlighted in the current condition of the client.

In the field of art therapy, psychodynamic currents all agree on the importance of the phenomenon of transference / counter transference as a fundamental element analysis, and is used as the main tool "healing" to the interpretation, which is the only one that allows unconscious conscious psychic conflict and put in a place which can be recaptured by the patient and worked through insight and processing (Miller, et. al., 2008, pp. 480-85).

Dynamic Psychotherapy in counseling

Psychodynamic approach helps the counsellor to understand the problems and the forces that lead to the conflict between the couples. These forces explain behaviours that are otherwise difficult to understand, such as choosing a jealous person makes a fellow infidel, their efforts to bring you confirmation of their worst fears, their tendency to push the companion to the rival, or obsessed with painful images in which his partner appears hugging passionately with that rival. These thoughts and behaviours heighten the suffering of the jealous person (Rogan & Hammer, 2006, 452-65), but as we have seen, we also provide a defence against feelings and thoughts even more disturbing.

Another contribution of the psychodynamic approach is the description of the roots that jealousy in adulthood have on childhood experiences. According to Freud, these affective experiences are associated with the oedipal stage. Since he considered that these experiences are universal, Freud was sure that the return ...