Analytická párová psychoterapie – teoretická východiska a praxe
Analytic couple psychotherapy – Theoretical foundations and practice

Summary/Abstract: Analytical couple psychotherapy is theoretically based on the concepts of shadow, complexes, and archetypal polarities as a part of individuation development. In practical work with a couple, imaginative and projective techniques are used. During a pair session, it is possible to analyze dreams, imagine, work in the sandbox or with pictures and other visual material. Original drawing projective techniques can be used, for example "Dream tree" and "Tree-house-fire-water-figure". Similarly, DIXIT cards can be used in therapy. The therapist lets the partners interpret each other's images. The images are created during the session and are thus not burdened by past couple conflicts. It can easily address themes or qualities that are common, in which the partners are polar complements, and which are a source of conflict. It is possible to keep the conversation over the drawings in the spirit of mutual understanding. In this way, we provide clients with an insight into their own and their partner's uniqueness and otherness, which is a condition for their acceptance and the search for constructive ways to further build a relationship or to successfully end an unpromising relationship.

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