ABSTRACT
Divorced couples with children, even when they have difficulty co-parenting effectively, rarely seek therapeutic intervention. In order to work with any couple or family in crisis, clinicians must sort through a web of transferences, countertransferences, projections, and projective identifications while attending to the needs of family members as a group and as individuals at varying cognitive and developmental levels. Divorced couples with children, even when they have difficulty co-parenting effectively, rarely seek therapeutic intervention. Unless a couple can contemplate the painful loss of the marriage, they will be unable to tolerate the psychic pain associated with the exploration of trauma that is essential in reclaiming lost aspects of themselves and developing new relational paradigms. Clinicians working with separating and divorcing families se.
