The Art of Jungian Couples Therapy: An Introduction

Within this accessible volume, Nelson and Delmedico apply a Jungian approach to provide fresh ways of thinking about couples therapy, and the profound unconscious forces at play when couples create a life together.

The Art of Jungian Couples Therapy offers new perspectives into thinking about what is happening in the consulting room, which the authors re-imagine as a sacred space or ＂temenos＂ guiding partners toward psychological wholeness, or what Jung termed the Self. The book offers welcome insights into how therapists can work with the complex and often intense energies that arise when two people cross the threshold of the clinical space. As ＂art＂ in the title suggests, it draws the therapist’s attention to the souls of the partners and the soul of the relationship itself.

Firmly grounded in Jungian thought yet intimate, approachable, and up to date, the book will be an indispensable guide for professional marriage and family therapists, psychoanalysts from both Jungian and Freudian schools, counseling psychologists, and licensed social workers who already practice couples therapy or have considered working with couples.

Elizabeth Éowyn Nelson, PhD, Jungian scholar and international speaker, has taught at Pacifica Graduate Institute since 2003. She has published two books as well as several academic papers and individual chapters on diverse subjects including dream, feminism, film, mythology, technology, and research. She is on the board of the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies and served as General Editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies for five years.

Anthony Delmedico, PhD, LMFT is a depth psychotherapist and AAMFT-Approved Supervisor in private practice in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has written about the depths of relationship, fatherhood, divorce, and sexual abuse.