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Couples as Parents: Explorations in Couple Therapy

Editor : Kate Thompson, Editor : Damian McCann

Table of Contents

Introduction
Kate Thompson & Damian McCann

Section 1 - Preparation for parenthood
1. ‘All change, all change’: Couples responding to the challenges of parenthood
Damian McCann

2. Being a couple and developing the capacity for creative parenting: A psychoanalytic perspective
Mary Morgan

3. Becoming parents through ART: Infertility, loss and the dilemmas of assisted reproductive technology
Martha Doniach

4. Gay and lesbian parenting: Choices, choices and more choices
Colleen Sandor

Section 2 - Developmental stages of the child
5. Perinatal couple psychotherapy: And the role of the infant
Sara Leon

6. Back to the Future, Together
Sonja Vetter

7. No Sex Please; We’re Parents
Linsey Blair

8. Falling or flying: Managing the ‘emptying of the nest’
Krisztina Glausuis

Section 3 - Challenges to parenting
9. Perinatal loss: The impact on the couple and the next generation
Marguerite Reid

10. Great Expectations: Blame, shame, and mourning in work with adoptive couples
Simon Cregeen

11. Holding the line: An exploration of the difficulties in maintaining a boundary around the couple for parents raising a child with a disability
Kate Thompson

Section 4 - Conflicted parents and their children
12. “Good cop – bad cop”: The challenge for parents of finding the middle ground
Sophie Corke

13. Mentalization-Based Therapy – Parenting under Pressure (MBT-PP): What does it feel like? Does it work? How can it help?
Honor Rhodes, William Walker, Maria Franchini, Sarah Ingram and David Levy

14. From partners to co-parents: Treading a new landscape after Separation
Joanna Harrison