ABSTRACT
One can discern from the seriousness and complexity of Mary Morgan's writing - Unconscious Beliefs about Being a Couple - unique ability to simultaneously hold in mind the emotional tone and interactional dynamics of the couple; the conscious and unconscious ways this gets played out in the transference and countertransference with the therapist, and to track how that is informed. Over the past decade Morgan has generated many of the central concepts in psychoanalytic couple therapy, especially within a neo-Kleinian and Bionian framework. In this chapter, Morgan is extending her views about the difficulties couples have in tolerating difference into the ways that they hold knowledge of themselves and the world. Morgan states at the end of her writing that: One of the reasons she likes the concept of unconscious belief is that it feels useful as an essential dimension for the therapist to grasp and as something that can stimulate the development of the third position in the couple.
