Existential/Dialectical Marital Therapy

1. Unraveling the Mystery of Marriage: An Existential! Dialectical Perspective 2. The Unique Interplay of Strengths and Weaknesses in the Couple's Marital System 3. Marrying Our Potential Helper/Rescuer Versus Our Torturer/Destroyer: Marriage as Effective Psychotherapy 4. What Is a Successful Marriage? Alternative Models by Which to Marry and Be Tested 5. When Is a Marital Problem a Problem? Hidden Traps in Seemingly Successful Marriages 6. Levels of Psychological Organization in Marriage: Individuality, Couplehood, and Family 7. Defining the Goals of Marital Therapy 8. Formulating a Systemic Challenge for the Couple Along with Challenges for Individual Growth 9. Bringing Together and Separating: Similarity and Complementarity as Basic Organizing Principles in Marital Therapy 10. The Treatment of Destructive Communication: Teaching Couples How to Be Best Friends and Their Real Selves 11. Marital Sexuality: /oyful and Loving Sexuality Versus Good Marriages with No Sex and Bad Marriages with Good Sex 12. Catering and Not Catering Affairs: The Proper and Improper Pursuit 0/ Extramarital Relationships 13. Helping Couples with Complexity and Inevitability: Becoming as Much as One Can and Reconciling with What One Cannot.