Love Songs: Listening to Couples
Book Details
- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 142
- Category :
Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 97939
- ISBN 13 : 9781800132672
- ISBN 10 : 1800132670
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christopher simon wintle on 04/03/2025 15:20:06
(5 out of 5)
What a remarkable book this is! It is not just beautifully written and presented, but even more strikingly embodies a profound humanism. Perrine Moran (who has a Polish background) is a couples therapist who admits that she is affected by what she hears, and copes in two ways: by pegging her interpretations to the titles of mainly popular songs of the last century or so, and in one case by writing a psychodrama that celebrates the power of enduring love between a wife, her daughter and her senile husband. She thus integrates music and lyrics into object relations theory, in a way that I (as an interested and musical lay reader of psychology) have not seen before. Each chapter highlights a problem - or issue - in the way couples relate, and the whole is well introduced and summarized (at the end). I expect to return to this book repeatedly for its sensitivity, intelligence and compassion. I also hope that PM writes more in he same vein. Warmly recommended.