Whose Disgust Is It Anyway?: Projection and Projective Identification in the Couple Relationship

Shelley Nathans, Ph.D., is on the faculty of the California Pacific Medical Center and the Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group training program. Her most recent publication is “Infidelity as Manic Defense,” published in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis in 2012. She is the director and producer of the film Robert Wallerstein: 65 Years at the Center of Psychoanalysis, and she is co-editor (with Milton Schaefer, Ph.D.) of the forthcoming book Couples on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy. She is in private practice in both San Francisco and Oakland, California.
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