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Of the major treatment orientations, psychoanalysis has shown the least interest in the study and treatment of marital discord. There is considerable ambivalence within that therapeutic community about the extent to which practitioners should be concerned with current interpersonal relationships of patients. Paradoxically, in spite of this ambivalence, psychoanalytic theory is probably the most influential contemporary theoretical system affecting the treatment of interpersonal difficulties. This is because of the pervasiveness of psychoanalytic concepts among mental health practitioners, particularly among psychiatrists and psychiatric social workers.
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Segraves, R.T. (1982). Psychoanalytic Theory and Marriage. In: Marital Therapy. Critical Issues in Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4169-7_3
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