Help your clients' relationships survive infidelity! In the
Handbook of the Clinical Treatment of Infidelity, a panel of
seasoned experts reflects on issues central to affairs, and on how
to help couples heal and learn from them. First, editors Fred P.
Piercy, Katherine M. Hertlein, and Joseph L. Wetchler provide an
essential overview of infidelity theory, research, and treatment.
They discuss the effect of infidelity on couples and delineate
three types of infidelityemotional, physical, and infidelity
including aspects of both. They review the relatively new role of
the Internet in infidelity and explore infidelity within the
context of comarital relationships. Finally, they discuss the
overarching theories and common models used in infidelity
treatment. Also in the Handbook of the Clinical Treatment of
Infidelity: Susan M. Johnson, the co-developer of Emotionally
Focused Therapy (EFT), discusses affairs through the lens of
attachment theory, and shows how EFT provides a way to acknowledge
and express pain, remorse, and regret, and to repair this
attachment bond. David Moultrup takes a Bowenian approach to
infidelity, focusing attention on the underlying dynamics of the
emotional system Frank Pittman and Tina Pittman Wagers outline
cultural myths about affairs and do their share of debunking Adrian
Blow discusses how to help couples directly address their painand
the challenges of the healing process Brian Case highlights the
role of apology and forgiveness in the healing process Frank Stalfa
and Catherine Hastings focus on the treatment of accusatory
sufferinga spouse's obsessive holding onto and retaliating for an
affair long after it has ended, and despite the offending partner's
repeated apologies and attempts at restitution Don-David Lusterman
discusses individuals who have suppressed or denied traumatic
stress reactions to their partner's affair, and how to help them
Scott Johnson discusses myths about affairs, from who is cheating
on whom, to whether men really have more affairs than women, to the
blame-filled language of affairs, betrayal, and infidelity, asking
us to think more systematically about affairs and to see the
dynamics of extra dyadic relationships as more complex and nuanced
than they are typically portrayed in the literature Joan Atwood
provides an overview of Internet infidelitythe factors influencing
one's involvement in this type of infidelity, and some
considerations for therapists Tim Nelson, Fred Piercy, and Doug
Sprenkle report on the results of a multi-phase Delphi study that
explored what infidelity experts say are the critical issues,
interventions, and gender differences in the treatment of Internet
infidelity Monica Whitty and Adrian Carr draw upon Klein's object
relations theory and discuss how this might influence the way
people rationalize their Internet infidelity Emily Brown outlines
the concept of the Split Self Affairdiscussing its origins,
characteristics, and implications for individuals and couples, and
providing detailed information on how to work with these couples in
therapy Michael Bettinger presents extra dyadic relationship as a
fact, rather than a problem, within many gay male relationshipsa
discussion that shows how gay male polyamory can work as an
alternative to the heterosexual model of emotional and sexual
exclusivity in romantic dyadic relationships Katherine Hertlein and
Gary Skaggs report on the results of a study that assessed the
level of differentiation and one's engagement in extra dyadic
relationships The Handbook of the Clinical Treatment of Infidelity
is essential reading for today's (and tomorrow's) clinicians who
work with couples. Make it a p
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