Abstract

GOMES, Isabel Cristina  and  LEVY, Lidia. Psychoanalysis with couples and families: main theoretical references and Brazilian approaches. Aletheia [online]. 2009, n.29, pp. 151-160. ISSN 1413-0394.

The Psychoanalysis with couples and families comes into the foreground as an enlargement of the psychoanalytic method. It uses the main concepts developed by the individual psychoanalysis (Freud and Klein), group analysis (Bion) as well as the theory developed by Winnicott to form its own theoretical structure. The main goal of this paper is to discuss the basis and the development of psychoanalysis with couples and families throughout its half century of existence. The article intends to present the main influences within the couple and family psychoanalysis field, the publications and clinical researches developed, emphasizing the Brazilian work done within this field of specialty.

Keywords : Psychoanalysis; Family; Couple.

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