Language: Italian (translated to English)
Level of audience: Advanced

This workshop proposes a transactional analytic model of therapeutic work with couples in group setting.

In our view, couples today live amid a good deal of social suffering. What it means to be a couple has evolved from arrangements that are strong, structured, and predictable to other identities that are more destructured and uncertain. We see these changes as the main reason for the increased need for couples therapy. At the same time, couples are the engine for change in social structures and are more pressured by social needs because they are the center of the family, often looking after their children and their parents in addition to themselves.

We offer a perspective on the psychological structure of couples and their developmental dynamics and offer clinical vignettes to discuss the mechanisms for change offered by therapeutic work with couples in a group setting. We thus see work with couples in a group setting as work in a social context.