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- Title
Disarming Jealousy in Couples Relationships: A Multidimensional Approach SCHEINKMAN & WERNECK.
- Authors
SCHEINKMAN, MICHELE; WERNECK, DENISE
- Abstract
To read this article in Spanish, please see this article's Supporting Information on Wiley Online Library (). Please pass this information on to your international colleagues and students. Jealousy is a powerful emotional force in couples' relationships. In just seconds it can turn love into rage and tenderness into acts of control, intimidation, and even suicide or murder. Yet it has been surprisingly neglected in the couples therapy field. In this paper we define jealousy broadly as a hub of contradictory feelings, thoughts, beliefs, actions, and reactions, and consider how it can range from a normative predicament to extreme obsessive manifestations. We ground jealousy in couples' basic relational tasks and utilize the construct of the vulnerability cycle to describe processes of derailment. We offer guidelines on how to contain the couple's escalation, disarm their ineffective strategies and power struggles, identify underlying vulnerabilities and yearnings, and distinguish meanings that belong to the present from those that belong to the past, or to other contexts. The goal is to facilitate relational and personal changes that can yield a better fit between the partners' expectations.
- Subjects
PSYCHOLOGY of Spouses; SIGNIFICANT others; ADULTERY; CONCEPTUAL structures; COUNSELING; CULTURE; DIVORCE; FORGIVENESS; INTERPERSONAL relations; JEALOUSY; SEX distribution; COUPLES; PREVENTION; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Family Process, 2010, Vol 49, Issue 4, p486
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01335.x