Last Chance Couple Therapy

Bringing Relationships Back from the Brink

By: Peter Fraenkel

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Hardcover | 19 February 2023 | Edition Number 1

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432 Pages

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Therapy with couples on the brink of relationship dissolution involves unique challenges. Partners present with high levels of conflict, low levels of intimate connection, disdain and discouragement, and limited patience or hope. These couples have often tried therapy without lasting success, and announce that "this is our last chance." Partners want to see evidence in the first session that the therapist can offer something new and that change is possible.

Peter Fraenkel presents a practical, creative, integrative approach that combines action- and insight-oriented techniques to help last-chance couples manage conflict, modulate intense negative emotions, address power struggles, develop mutual compassion, and restore emotional intimacy and pleasurable connection. Special attention is paid to developing a collaborative therapeutic alliance when partners have little motivation for therapy or faith that it can be effective. Through engaging in "nonbinding experiments in possibility," partners can then better evaluate whether to "stay or go."

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If, as Minuchin said, that therapy is 'like a Tango, ' Peter Fraenkel's Last Chance Couples Therapy lays out the steps for therapists who, in teaching couples who've lost their steps how to dance as partners, learn how to heal one another and themselves for all of life's many dances.--Jay Lappin, M.S.W., LCSW
With great mastery, Peter Fraenkel pulls back the curtain to reveal the inner workings of his three-decade-long practice with the most precarious couples. Last Chance Couple Therapy is a curious and illuminating read for therapists, coaches, and clinicians.--Esther Perel, psychotherapist, author and host of Where Should We Begin?

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