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Commentaries on the Marriage-Of-Opposites

A site devoted to the understanding & treatment of the marriage-of-opposites; marriages variously characterized as maximizing/minimizing, pursuing/distancing, fusing/isolating, emoting/intellectualizing, sensitizing/leveling, hysterical/obsessional-styled, and borderline/narcissistic-styled.

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Marital Therapy Program

The Introduction of Attachment Theory To Couples Therapy
On Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A General Framework For Multi-Modal Treatment
An Aspect Of The Core-Styled's Need To Provoke
Being On The Marital Playing Field
The Impact Of Lacking "Personal Self-Presence" On Marriage
Functioning At One's Worst

In recent years a groundswell of huge proportions has begun to impact the practice of marital therapy. This lies in the application of attachment theory pioneered by John Bowlby. Mary Ainsworth and Mary Main to the understanding and treatment of couples. Exemplified by the work of Sue Johnson and Les Greenberg, the foundations of this approach is the understandingthat marital attachment is largely an adult expression of primary attachment styles learned in early childhood. (cont)