The Couple and Life’s Challenges: Grief, Illness, Conflict, and Vulnerability

David Sahyoun, 08/10 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Couple Psychoanalysis Challengens Culture

Life occasionally interrupts the usual flow of events. Illness, bereavement, separation, conflict, exile, and insecurity can erupt, and thought itself may falter. W. Bion describes these moments when the drive runs wild and suffering defends itself by halting thought. Sometimes one partner becomes the caregiver, the other the patient; this ...