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couples therapy

American  

noun

  1. a counseling procedure that attempts to improve the adaptation and adjustment of two people who form a conjugal unit.


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The use of stage direction as couples therapy is one of the more poignant sequences in a film that tends to dance along the line separating the farcical from the bittersweet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

A fusion of body horror and couples therapy, it centers on a sunken cave with a pool of water that, when sipped, makes cells thirst to meld with the nearest mammal.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2025

When divorce rates rose in the 1970s, couples therapy blossomed.

From New York Times • May 28, 2024

A baffling new movie on Amazon Prime paints a trip to Auschwitz as a kind of couples therapy.

From Slate • Aug. 2, 2023

Her mom had always said couples therapy was too expensive because they didn’t take insurance, but her dad had offered to pay anyway.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway

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