The Relationships We Recreate
How Unresolved Attachments, Projection, and the Unconscious Hope for Repair Shape the Partners We Choose—and the Relationships We Create James Tobin, Ph.D. Key Points We bring our relational histories into our adult relationships. Early experiences of attachment,...
The Roles We Play for One Another
How Relationships Distribute Emotion, Responsibility, Strength, and Vulnerability By James Tobin, Ph.D. Relationships do more than bring two personalities together. They quietly distribute psychological roles—and then persuade us that the resulting arrangement...
The Relationship Beneath the Conflict
Why Recurring Problems May Signal That a Couple Has Reached a Developmental Turning Point James Tobin, Ph.D. Couples often enter therapy because they have reached a conflict, distance, or impasse they can no longer resolve. The Inflection Model considers another...
The Patient Between Therapists
What Clinicians Can Learn When They See the Same Patient Differently James Tobin, Ph.D. When clinicians—such as individual and couples therapists, psychiatrists, or other treating professionals—consult with one another about a shared patient, they may discover that...
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