Research Catalog

Title

Equal partners - good friends : empowering couples through therapy / Claire Rabin.

Author

Rabin, Claire Low

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

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Details

Description

xi, 282 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Marriage as an equal partnership is the goal of many couples in the western world today. Equality is often limited by the ways that power and gender interact in the relationship, leading to dissatisfaction and ultimately the break-up of the marriage. In Equal Partners - Good Friends, Dr. Claire Rabin examines the connection between inequality in marriage and marital distress. Drawing on extensive research and personal interviews in the UK, USA and Israel, she stresses the key role of friendship in establishing a truly equal relationship. Treatment methods for work with couples are described with a focus on gender, sex roles and power - a model much needed in today's climate of change.

Subject

• Spouses > psychology
• Marital Therapy
• Marital psychotherapy
• Man-woman relationships
• Sex role
• Dominance (Psychology)
• Communication in marriage
• Equality
• Friendship
• Marriage > Psychological aspects
• Power, Psychological
• Social Dominance
• Hierarchy, Social
• Friends

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [264]-271) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Gender, power and contemporary relationship tension -- 2. The egalitarian alternative. What is it? Is it worth the effort? -- 3. Friendship: the basic condition of equal partnership -- 4. Shared power: the road to mutual empowerment -- 5. Towards an integrative model of treatment goals for couples -- 6. Assessment -- 7. Types of couples seeking therapy -- 8. Creating an egalitarian therapeutic system -- 9. The treatment model: individual interventions and education about equality -- 10. Couple interventions -- 11. Treatment of the traditional couple: putting the wife in charge -- 12. Treatment of the transitional couple: overt and covert power struggles -- 13. Issues in training and supervision.

ISBN

• 0415116147 (hardbound)
• 0415116155 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^95042247^

OCLC

• 33281664
• SCSB-11936482

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library