ABSTRACT

When one partner in a relationship is unfaithful to the other, it takes a lot of work by both parties involved to salvage the relationship. In today’s therapy-friendly climate, marriage/couples counseling is often a part of that rebuilding process. Many couples seek out professional therapy after an affair is out in the open, but often the act of infidelity is revealed while uncovering and discussing unrelated issues for which the couple is in counseling. And yet, amazingly, as common as this complex and difficult topic arises in therapy, there is relatively little professional literature devoted to understanding and "treating" infidelity.

In this volume, Paul Peluso has assembled a truly impressive list of contributors from a range of disciplines and backgrounds, including marital therapy, family therapy, evolutionary psychology, marriage research, and cyberstudies, with the aim of filling this void.

chapter |7 pages

Infidelity

Introduction and Overview

part |113 pages

The Treatment of Infidelity in Couples Therapy

chapter |15 pages

Research on Couple Therapy for Infidelity

What Do We Know About Helping Couples When There Has Been an Affair?

chapter |27 pages

Treating Infidelity

An Integrative Approach to Resolving Trauma and Promoting Forgiveness

chapter |21 pages

Forgive and Forget

A Comparison of Emotionally Focused and Cognitive-Behavioral Models of Forgiveness and Intervention in the Context of Couple Infidelity

part |110 pages

The Impact of Infidelity on Couples and Families From Different Social, Cultural, Generational, and Sexual Perspectives

chapter |22 pages

Cyber-Infidelity

chapter |16 pages

Infidelity

A Multicultural Perspective

chapter |20 pages

Male Couples and Monogamy

Clinical and Cultural Issues

chapter |18 pages

Lesbian Couples

The Infidelities of Women, Sexual and Otherwise

chapter |30 pages

“An Affair to Remember”

Infidelity and Its Impact on Children

part |48 pages

Professional Reflections and Conclusion

chapter |11 pages

Reflections of a Master

An Interview with Frank Pittman

chapter |27 pages

Reflections on the Affair

An Experiential Perspective

chapter |6 pages

Summarizing Infidelity

Lessons Learned Along the Way