Research Catalog

Title

Treating infidelity : therapeutic dilemmas and effective strategies / Gerald R. Weeks, Nancy Gambescia, Robert E. Jenkins.

Author

Weeks, Gerald R., 1948-

Publication

New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Gambescia, Nancy.
• Jenkins, Robert E., 1951-

Description

xvii, 224 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

• "In Treating Infidelity, Weeks, Gambescia, and Jenkins provide therapists and counselors with concepts, insights, and therapeutic plans that will allow them to work effectively with couples undergoing a crisis of broken intimacy. The authors address this severe therapeutic challenge with a comprehensive and inter-systematic approach that carefully considers the concerns of the couple, the partners as individuals, and the role of the therapist. Because it is a relationship problem, infidelity requires a flexible clinical regimen combining elements of individual and conjoint therapy within a systemic orientation. The authors have long used just such a regimen in their own clinical work with clients experiencing relational and sexual dysfunctions.
• Treating Infidelity presents the insights and organization of this successful clinical model, and provides a systematic array of techniques that help couples to repair and recover from an affair."--Jacket.

Subject

• Marital psychotherapy
• Adultery
• Extramarital Relations
• Marital Therapy > methods
• Couples Therapy > methods
• Marital Therapy

Note

• "A Norton Professional Book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-211) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Typologies of Infidelity -- Empirical Perspectives on Infidelity with Treatment Implications -- The Multiple Dimensions of Infidelity -- Consequences of Infidelity -- Therapeutic Dilemmas -- Initial Phase of Treatment: Issues and Strategies -- Treatment: Systemic Considerations -- Forgiveness -- Facilitating Forgiveness -- Working with Refractory Cases -- The Final Phase of Therapy: Treating Factors That Trigger Infidelity -- Concluding Techniques: Promoting Intimacy Through Communication.

ISBN

0393703886

LCCN

^^2003060787

OCLC

52838917

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library