Research Article| January 01 2001 Couple Royal, couple ambigu Dominique Desanti Dominique Desanti Paris Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Romanic Review (2001) 92 (1-2): 213–219. https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-92.1-2.213 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Dominique Desanti; Couple Royal, couple ambigu. Romanic Review 1 January 2001; 92 (1-2): 213–219. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-92.1-2.213 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsRomanic Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2001 The Trustees of Columbia University2001 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Articles You do not currently have access to this content.

Assessment of couple distress shares basic principles of assessing individuals. However, couple assessment differs from individual assessment in that couple assessment strategies focus specifically on relationship processes and the interactions between individuals, provide an opportunity for direct observation of target complaints involving communication and other interpersonal exchanges, and must be sensitive to potential challenges unique to establishing a collaborative alliance when assessing highly distressed or antagonistic partners. This chapter focuses on the assessment of couple distress. It begins with a review of the nature of couple conflict and distress, which is followed by a review of clinical assessment instruments designed for the assessment purposes of (a) determining couple functioning, (b) case conceptualization and treatment planning, and (c) treatment monitoring and evaluation. Recommendations are included for instruments with the greatest scientific support and for assessing couple functioning in a clinically sensitive manner.

Couple and family psychoanalysis are disciplines in search of definition. This paper offers a definition of couple psychoanalysis and considers its relationship to couple therapy. It reflects on Oedipal dimensions of the couple therapist’s role, and explores contextual aspects of four clinical challenges intrinsic to that role: (1) looking in and looking out; (2) relating to sex and gender; (3) engaging with difference; (4) conserving and changing. The paper concludes with the assertion that three is a community, not a crowd, and that couple therapy, like couple psychoanalysis, is about building communities.

In this paper, the concept of moment and couple in mechanics is examined from a fundamental perspective. It turns out that although representing a couple by its moment vector is very useful in rigid body mechanics and strength of materials, it has been very misleading in continuum mechanics. To specify the effect of a concentrated couple in continuum mechanics, not only the couple moment, but also the line of action of its constituent parallel opposite forces must be specified. However, in the governing equations of equilibrium or motion of a continuum, only moment of body couple, moment of couple-tractions, and moment of couple-stresses appear without specifying the line of action of any couple density forces. This results in non-uniqueness of the state of stresses and deformation in the continuum, which has shown itself in the indeterminacy of the couple-stress tensor. Nevertheless, the physical state of stress and deformation in the continuum is unique and determinate. Therefore, this imposes some restrictions on the form of body couple, couple-traction and couple-stresses. Here, the uniqueness of interactions in the continuum is used to establish that the continuum does not support a distribution of body couple, and a distribution of surface twisting couple-traction with normal moment. From this the mechanism of action of the couple-traction as a double layer of shear force-tractions, and the skew-symmetric character of the couple-stress moment tensor in continuum mechanics are also established.

Couple therapy is an important subfield of psychology given the high prevalence and significant negative impact of relationship dissatisfaction and dissolution on individuals and families. This article provides an overview of the current science of couple therapy, emphasizing empirically-supported treatments for distressed couples and new directions in couples research. Behavioral Couple Therapy, Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy, and Emotion Focused Therapy are highlighted. Additional topics include emerging online treatments and the need for more research on the unique experiences of diverse couples.

Résumé Les auteurs décrivent quelques-unes des spécificités de l’écoute du couple thérapeutique en consultation de couple dans un contexte privé. À travers de courts extraits cliniques, relatifs à une consultation d’un jeune couple marié, ils analysent notamment : les spécificités que la demande de consultation peut revêtir de la part d’un couple, surtout lorsque cette demande ne vient que d’un seul partenaire ; les caractéristiques de l’alliance inconsciente qui lie les partenaires ; la spécificité de la dynamique intertransférentielle.

Whereas most couples enter into marriage or similar committed, romantic relationships with the full expectation that they will live their lives together in a happy and rewarding manner, the divorce rate in the United States and many Western countries continues to be alarmingly high—in the United States hovering around 50%. As a result, mental health practitioners have focused energy on ways to alleviate relationship distress. Many approaches for assisting distressed couples have been developed, yet few have been evaluated to demonstrate that they actually help couples. The current chapter provides an overview of the major models of couple therapy that have been evaluated in well-controlled research studies and have demonstrated that they benefit couples. The models included are: behavioral couple therapy, cognitive-behavioral couple therapy, integrative behavioral couple therapy, emotionally focused couple therapy, and insight-oriented couple therapy. For each model, the theoretical approach, overall interventions, and effectiveness are discussed.

Abstract The institution of marriage, especially in Western societies, is in a state of flux. Pressures exist which both idealize and undermine couple relationships. There is increased public interest in exploring the nature of couple interaction and a parallel process which questions the basis of couple relationships and seeks more individual freedom and fulfilment. It is not surprising therefore that there is a high demand for couple therapy (Crowe and Ridley 2000). Marriage itself is becoming less popular, having reached a peak in the 1960s. Added to this, many forms of unofficial pairing exist, which often include cohabitation, and sometimes also involve the rearing of children.

This chapter explores begins by defining couple distress and noting its prevalence and comorbidity with emotional, behavioral, and physical health problems of individuals in both clinical and community populations. Both brief screening measures and clinical methods are presented for diagnosing couple distress in clinical as well as research applications. The bulk of the chapter is devoted to conceptualizing and assessing couple distress for the purpose of planning and evaluating treatment.

La vie de couple des personnes vivant avec des troubles psychiques est ici observée comme un fait social, c’est-à-dire façonnée par son environnement et s’imposant aux personnes. Partant, nous montrons ici qu’elle a toujours fait l’objet d’un contrôle des institutions les prenant en charge. Toutefois, au cours de l’histoire, ce contrôle a évolué au gré des règles qui définissent la place des aliénés ou malades dans la société et du regard que l’on pose sur eux, ainsi que de celles qui encadrent le couple. Elles ont participé activement à construire leur vie intime. Outre les formes de ce contrôle, ses justifications, elles aussi, se sont déplacées, passant de la protection de la famille à la protection de la personne elle-même. Ce contrôle a d’abord consisté en l’éloignement de l’autre sexe, puis en un regard porté sur le couple, qui, aujourd’hui, semble même être en passe de devenir une modalité de prise en charge transformant le conjoint en proche-aidant.