Tell Me the Truth About Love

13 Tales from Couples Therapy

Tell Me the Truth About Love
Susanna Abse
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h198 x 126mm - 240pg
26 Jan 2023 UK
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9781529107357
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The Examined Life meets Three Women- stories of real couples on the couch from one of Britain' s most experienced relationship therapists. Love is what gives life meaning, but relationships also present us with the greatest emotional challenges of our lives. Tell Me the Truth About Love takes us on a journey into one of the most fascinating realms there is- other people' s relationships. Drawing on over 30 years of working closely with people who have encountered hurdles in their love lives, psychoanalytic therapist and chair of the British Psychoanalytic council Susanna Abse shares poignant, alarming and unforgettable stories that explore how we love, and how we live with those we love. Abse takes us through six of the challenges most often encountered in the course of a relationship- infidelity, ambition, marriage, children, loneliness, fragility. We meet couples who have embedded affairs into their relationship yet are in denial about its repercussions; partners who suffer oedipal complexes with the arrival of their first child; and others who are in love, but struggle with the question of what price to pay for their ambition - and how far work can take over from their personal lives. Whether its knowing when to call time on a relationship versus when to persevere, or how to navigate our changing roles within a single relationship over the course of our lives, Tell Me the Truth About Love explores inspiring true stories that shed light on the human heart - and the strange ways it tries to both embrace life' s greatest mystery, and protect itself from pain.
' A must-read for everyone wanting to understand more about what makes us fall in - and out - of love' * Philippa Perry * ' A charming, useful, kind book about the pains and hopes of relationship' * Alain de Botton * ' Powerful, masterful, insightful. With every turn of the page I learnt more about people and their relationships and, ultimately, about myself' * Annalisa Barbieri * ' Tell Me the Truth about Love is a compelling and thoughtful book which anyone who is interested in the dynamics of romantic relationships should read. Abse is a psychoanalyst so her approach is reflexive, and the complex learnings that couples make during therapy with her seem to unfold in real time. This is not a book about quick fixes. It is a book that demonstrates that no couple is "able to meet each other' s desires completely, but the relationship exists in the trying. ' * Suzi Godson * ' The inner lives of couples fascinate us. We wonder what goes when we sense trouble and heartache. Susanna Abse shows how therapists turn hurts, and misunderstandings into longed for deeper connections. ' * Susie Orbach *
Susanna Abse is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist who has worked in private practice with couples, individuals and parents since 1991. She is the current chair of The British Psychoanalytic Council and was CEO of the charity Tavistock Relationships from 2006 until 2016. She has also recently been presenting Britain on the Couch for Channel 4 News. She has published widely on couple therapy, parenting, and family policy and how these areas need to be at the heart of progressive welfare provision, a subject on which she lectures and teaches. Susanna is a Senior Fellow of the Tavistock Institute for Medical Psychology, a fellow of the Centre for Social Policy at Dartington; a previous Leadership Fellow at St George' s House, Windsor Castle, as well as a Member of the Advisory Board of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. She is also Co-Editor of The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis for Routledge Books. Between 2016-18, she was a member of the University of Birmingham mental health policy commission, "Investing in a Resilient Generation".
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781529107357
Published: 26 Jan 2023
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Ebury Press
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 126mm
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 168g
Pages: 240

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