Theoretical and methodological changes in psychoanalytical therapies for couples

Abstract

Psychoanalytical therapies for couples bring a personal therapeutic benefit to each of the patients and, often, to their ambivalent painful emotional bond as testified by a comparative meta-analysis of former and contemporary therapeutic approaches. A more group related psychoanalytical understanding is now asserted to better grasp both the identity-related issues brought into play by the unconscious processes that structure any human group, but also the transgenerational group specificity of families and couples, which gives their emotional and affective life such great intensity.