Психоаналитична оценка на двойки – някои несъзнавани феномени във функционирането на двойката
Psychoanalytic assessment of couplets – some unconscious phenomena in couples’ functioning

Summary/Abstract: This text aims at reviewing aspects of the psychoanalytical understanding of unconscious processes, which play a part in choosing a partner and establishing an intimate relationship in the couple. The opportunities this kind of understanding provides, in the clinical situation, for assessing mental functioning of individual partners and in the couple are also presented. The text is based on authors belonging to the object relation school of psychoanalysis. Some of the basic concepts in this framework allows us to think about the couple in terms of relationships with internal and external objects and understand the unconscious processes in the minds of the partners. There is a brief account of the origins of the object relation school, as well as some of the basic concepts – projective and introjective identification, paranoid-schizoid and depressive states and narcissism in the context of the individual and of the couple. Also reviewed are issues such as identity, separateness, intimacy and intrusiveness in the couple, partner choice and the quality of relationships, as well as characteristics of the transference and countertransference.

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