Master the foundations of couple therapy with Dr. Robert Neuburger
Couple therapy
- The beginning of therapy
- The therapeutic setting
- In person or remote
- The adequacy of the request for therapy
- Inadequate requests
- Welcoming the request
- Understanding the problem
- Circularity
- The main difficulties of couples
- Couples without couple problems
- The system’s plasticity
- The question of separation
- Sexuality
- Physical contact
- Intervening in the sexual sphere
Interview simulations
- Pierre and Nathalie - First session
- Pierre and Nathalie - Second session
- Pierre and Nathalie - Debriefing
- Danielle and Julie - First session
- Danielle and Julie - Second session
- Juliette and Thomas - Second session
- Danielle and Julie - Third session
- Danielle and Julie - Fourth session
- Danielle and Julie - Fifth session
- Rachel and Jean-Baptiste
- Juliette and Thomas - First session
Building the couple
Between encounter, narrative and compatibility
This second chapter explores the founding dynamics of the contemporary couple, at the crossroads of the emotional, the symbolic and the pragmatic. Robert Neuburger develops a systemic reading of the process by which the conjugal bond is constituted, in three major steps.
An unprecedented context
Today’s couple forms in an unprecedented cultural and social context: plurality of configurations, decline of spontaneous commitment, rise of individualisation… all factors transforming the ways of “being a couple”.
The founding irrational
What Neuburger calls the founding myth: an imaginary narrative that gives the encounter a particular meaning and grants the couple a symbolic legitimacy.
The rational parameters
Compatibility (values, families, projects, places to live…), just as decisive for building a lasting bond — with the emergence of the pre-couple, that intermediate phase of living together to test the relationship.
The founding tensions of the couple: between romanticism and lucidity, between the desire for a sustaining “us” and the concern to preserve one’s freedom. An essential basis for understanding the clinical stakes to come.
3 lessons
- The formation of the contemporary couple
- The irrational: the founding myth
- The rational: compatibility