Extensive clinical scholarship has described the application of object-relational principles, particularly the operation of projective identification, to psychodynamic psychotherapy with couples. The author explores the way in which a more complete depiction of projective processes, one that incorporates each partner’s intrapersonal management of multiple internal object relations, interacting interpersonally in the couple therapy process, can explain the escalating cycles of conflict between couples that are elaborated in the family-systems literature, and be helpful in understanding the object-relational substrate of chronic conflict in couples more generally. A description of how to map each partner’s internal object world through the identification of these cycles in the early couple therapy process is elaborated in a theoretical model and illustrated with case material.

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“事实真相”：在心理动力学夫妻治疗中处理激活的内部客体关系的模型


广泛的临床学术描述了客体关系原则，特别是投射性认同的操作，在夫妻心理动力学治疗中的应用。作者探讨了如何更完整地描述投射过程，其中包含每个伴侣对多个内部客体关系的内部管理，在夫妻治疗过程中进行人际互动，可以解释在《夫妻治疗》中详细阐述的夫妻之间不断升级的冲突循环。家庭系统文献，有助于更广泛地理解夫妻长期冲突的客体关系基础。在理论模型中详细阐述了如何通过识别早期夫妻治疗过程中的这些周期来映射每个伴侣的内部客体世界，并用案例材料进行说明。