{"product_id":"the-couple-a-pluridisciplinary-story-9781138645745","title":"The Couple: A Pluridisciplinary Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Eric Smadja\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Psychoanalysis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Couple: A pluridisciplinary story\u003c\/em\u003e asks two questions and endeavours to answer them: What is the couple? And what story are we talking about? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eÉric Smadja presents his view of \"the couple\" as a composite, sexual-bodily, socio-cultural and psychic living reality in diverse and variable interrelationships, unfolding within a complex temporality. Ambivalently invested in by each partner, the couple is structurally and dynamically as conflictual as it is critical. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmadja sees the couple as situated at the intersection of several histories: socio-cultural; epistemological (the construction of this object of knowledge and of psychoanalytic treatment); \"natural\" (that of the cycle of conjugal life marked out by critical and mutative stages); and therapeutic (that of the suffering couple that will consult a specialist and undergo psychoanalytic therapy). \u003cem\u003eThe Couple: A pluridisciplinary story\u003c\/em\u003e follows the narrative division of these histories following a pluri- and interdisciplinary investigation combining historical, anthropological, sociological and psychoanalytic approaches. It enables the reader to structure the outline of a general, but irreducibly heterogeneous, picture of the couple, and by so doing, Smadja is able to develop new interdisciplinary concepts, in particular those of \u003cem\u003ecouple work\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003econjugal culture\u003c\/em\u003e. In the final part of the book, he presents a full case study and introduces new technical aspects of this psychoanalytic work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis unique approach to the study of the couple as a unit will appeal to psychoanalysts, especially those working with couples, psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, medical doctors, students and academics of psychoanalytic studies, anthropology and sociology. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45237570502807,"sku":"9781138645745","price":3735.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781138645745.webp?v=1769216933","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-couple-a-pluridisciplinary-story-9781138645745","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}