Couple and Family Psychoanalysis

Editor: Jill Savege Scharff

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective.

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

ARTICLES
– Community Response to the Impact of COVID: Psychoanalytic crisis intervention with a couple by Elizabeth Palacios
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– Commentaries on Palacios’s paper by Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose
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and Leora Benioff
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– COVID-19, Catastrophic Lockdown, and a Couple Retreat by Joanne Brown
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– How Close is Too Close? Some thoughts on couple psychotherapy in a time of constricted living imposed by Covid by Kate Thompson
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– To Gaze beyond the Screen: Appreciating the communicative function of mise en scène in online psychotherapy by Pierre Cachia
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– Inside Out and Outside In: Exploring the interplay between social and psychic structures in the pandemic era by Andi Pilecki Eliza-Christie
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BOOK REVIEWS
– Psychoanalysis and Covidian Life: Common Distress, Individual Experience edited by Howard B. Levine and Ana de Staal – reviewed by Caroline Sehon
– Freud’s Pandemics. Surviving Global War, the Spanish Flu, and the Nazis by Brett Kahr – reviewed by Christopher Clulow
– Psychoanalytic Work with Families and Couples: Clinical Perspectives on Suffering by Susana Kuras Mauer, Sara Moscona and Silvia Resnizky – reviewed by James Poulton
– The Curiosity Drive: Our Need for Inquisitive Thinking by Philip Stokoe – reviewed by Robert Monzo

ARTS REVIEWS
– Good Grief, by Lorien Haynes – directed by Natalie Abrahami, streamed at Original Theatre Online – reviewed by Elle Sidel
– Singer Rita Antonopoulou and guitarist Manolis Androulidakis, outdoor concert at the Pedion Areos Park, Athens, June 2021: A personal experience  – reviewed by Nora Tsatsas

CONFERENCE REPORTS
– 9th International Congress of the International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (IACFP): “Advances in couple and family psychoanalysis in the contemporary world.” by Anne Anttonen
– 9th International Congress of the International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, and first International E-Congress: “The Irrepresentable.” by Rosa Jaitin

OBITUARY
– Janine Puget (19 December 1926 to 5 November 2021) by Rosa Jaitin (edited and translated by Christopher Clulow)

Guest Editor: Christopher Vincent

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective.

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

ARTICLES
– To be or not to be three: a clinical narrative, an unanswered question by Jill Savege Scharff
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– The role of secrets in the invention or reinvention of families by Susana Muszkat and Monica Vorchheimer
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– A brief psychodynamic intervention for couples with unresolved grief: a case study report by Diana Kenny, Timothy Keogh, Cynthia Gregory-Roberts, John Kearney, and Judith Pickering
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– Creative illusion in couples: thoughts about the value of transitional experience for couple relationships by Julie Friend
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– The application of contemporary self psychology to couple psychotherapy by Carla Leone
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– Shame, culture, and gender: rethinking the treatment model for couple therapy after an affair by Yun Pang
DOI 10.33212/cfp.v11n2.2021.187

BOOK REVIEWS
– The Tavistock Century: 2020 Vision edited by Margot Waddell and Sebastian Kraemer – reviewed by Stanley Ruszczynski
– Sexuality and Gender Now: Moving Beyond Heteronormativity edited by Leezah Hertzmann and Juliet Newbigin – reviewed by Perrine Moran
– Working with Attachment in Couples Therapy: A Four-Step Model for Clinical Practice by Jim Donovan – reviewed by Christopher Clulow
– Jack by Marilynne Robinson – reviewed by David Hewison

ARTS REVIEWS
– Normal People, TV series directed by Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald – reviewed by Erica Herrero-Martinez
– Aida, by Giuseppe Verdi, set design and direction by Franco Zeffirelli – reviewed by Maureen Boerma
– Thoughts on reading “Aftershocks”, a contemporary poem by A. E. Stallings – reviewed by Susan Pacey

OBITUARY
– Jeannie Milligan (1949–2021) by Brett Kahr

Guest Editor: Kate Thompson

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective.

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

ARTICLES
– Notes on working with divorcing and separating couples by Avi Shmueli
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– Co-parent therapy and the parenting plan as transitional phenomena: working psychoanalytically with high-conflict separating and divorcing couples by Dana Iscoff
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– Fractured families, fractured systems: overcoming the silo mentality in family justice work by Amita Sehgal
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– Creating a family state of mind: using psychoanalytic ideas to treat families where children resist or refuse contact with a parent by Kathy Sinsheimer
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– Marriages and remarriages: different stages of a dating relationship by Isabel Cristina Gomes and Lidia Levy
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– Divorce in China by David Scharff
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– Micro-separations: how to traumatise your spouse on a daily basis by Brett Kahr
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BOOK REVIEWS
– The Brain has a Mind of its Own: Attachment, Neurobiology and the New Science of Psychotherapy by Jeremy Holmes – reviewed by Christopher Clulow
– Psychoanalytic Approaches to Loss: Mourning, Melancholia and Couples edited by Timothy Keogh and Cynthia Gregory-Roberts – reviewed by Kate Thompson

FILM REVIEWS
– Hope Gap, directed by William Nicholson – reviewed by Perrine Moran and Nora Tsatsas
– Marriage Story, directed by Noah Baumbach – reviewed by Viveka Nyberg

DOCUMENTARY REVIEW
– Supporting children when parents separate. An online resource from the Centre for Social Policy. A filmed interview of Professor Mervyn Murch by Dr Christopher Clulow by Avi Shmueli

Editor: James L. Poulton

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective.

This issue contains a special section to celebrate the centenary of the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology.

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

ARTICLES
– Can the “internal couple” be our faithful life-long partner? by Molly Ludlam
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– Couples for couples: co-therapy as interpretive action by Christopher Clulow and Amita Sehgal
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– Drugs, sex and love: narrative of an object relations couple therapy by Jill Savege Scharff and Dina Oren
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CENTENARY CELEBRATION
– The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, 1920-2020 by Brett Kahr
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– A brief history of Tavistock Relationships by Andrew Balfour
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– Our relationship to the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology and Tavistock Relationships by Jill Savege Scharff and David E. Scharff
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– Four decades of international collaboration with Tavistock Relationships by Philip A. Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan
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Responses to ‘Should “sensate focus” have a place in couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy’
– Should “sensate focus” have a place in couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy? by Maureen Boerma and Catriona Wrottesley
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– Commentary on Integrative Teaching and Treatment Modalities in Couple Psychosexual Therapy: reply to Susan Pacey by Carla Trusty-Smith
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OCCASIONAL REVIEWS
– Mental health implications of COVID-19 quarantine and the experience of online couple therapy by David Hewison
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– Psychic space and psychic retreats: Reflections on Tavistock Relationships 2019 Advanced Couples Summer School by Gael Beckett
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BOOK REVIEWS
– How to Flourish as a Psychotherapist by Brett Kahr – reviewed by Susanna Abse
– Engaging Couples: New Directions in Therapeutic Work with Families edited by Andrew Balfour, Christopher Clulow, and Kate Thompson – reviewed by Sandra Evans

ART REVIEWS
– Portrait of the Artist Käthe Kollwitz, Exhibition at The British Museum – reviewed by Molly Ludlam
– The Wife, directed by Björn Junge  – reviewed by Susan Pacey and Nora Tsatsas
– Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury, directed by Nadia Latif – reviewed by Marian O’Connor

REPORT
– The Seventh IPA Conference on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis San Francisco, California, 6-9 February, 2020 by Leora Benioff and Lee Slome

Editor: Christopher Clulow

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective.

The journal board have put together a Spotify playlist to accompany this special issue on musical connections – click here to enjoy!

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

ARTICLES

• Three musical love letters by Molly Ludlam
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• To live for you! To die for you! Some observations on Gustav Mahler’s marriage and his experience of meeting Freud by Anthony Cantle
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• Contessa perdono! Mozartian sexual betrayal and forgiveness by Francis Grier
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• Harmony of the spheres: musical elements of couple communication by Judith Pickering
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• I’ve got you under my skin”: borderline states in couple relationships by Perrine Moran
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• Blue heaven: jazz as connector and disrupter in family and community relationships by Christopher Clulow
  DOI 10.33212/cfp.v10n1.2020.72
• Jazz, dementia, and moments of meeting by Kate White
  DOI 10.33212/cfp.v10n1.2020.87
• The woman who could not sing “Happy Birthday”: couple psychoanalysis at the baby grand piano by Brett Kahr
  DOI 10.33212/cfp.v10n1.2020.93
• Music therapy with couples and families in the United Kingdom: a review by Amita Sehgal
  DOI 10.33212/cfp.v10n1.2020.99

BOOK REVIEWS

• A Couple State of Mind: Psychoanalysis of Couples and the Tavistock Relationships Model by Mary Morgan – Reviewed by Jill Savege Scharff
  DOI 10.33212/cfp.v10n1.2020.108
• Art Therapy in the Early Years: Therapeutic Interventions with Infants, Toddlers and Their Families edited by Julia Meyerowitz-Katz and Dean Reddick – Reviewed by Bridget Grant
  DOI 10.33212/cfp.v10n1.2020.111
  

ARTS REVIEWS

• Company by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, directed by Marianne Elliott – Reviewed by Philip Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan, Christopher Clulow, and Pamela Clulow
  DOI 10.33212/cfp.v10n1.2020.115
• A Late Quartet directed by Yaron Zilberman – Reviewed by Caroline Medawar
  DOI 10.33212/cfp.v10n1.2020.118

Editor: Molly Ludlam

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

PERSONAL VIEW – Oedipus simplex: the British blind spot by Deborah Anna Luepnitz

ARTICLES

• The first Mrs Winnicott and the second Mrs Winnicott: does psychoanalysis facilitate healthy marital choice? by Brett Kahr
• Responses to “The first Mrs Winnicott and the second Mrs Winnicott: does psychoanalysis facilitate healthy marital choice?” by Brett Kahr: “Of the nature of a therapeutic act” by Jeremy Elkins
• Thoughts on Winnicott’s childless state and its relation to his profound contributions to childhood development theory by Bernard Macleod
• Wives and analysts: or, how Winnicott became Winnicott by Neil Vickers
• D. W. Winnicott and the capacity to marry well by Lindsay Wells
• On Winnicott’s marriages: a response by Brett Kahr
  
• The couple, the self, and the problem of the other by Angela Joyce
• Re-visioning creativity in couple psychoanalysis: the importance of Winnicott and Bollas in clinical practice by David Hewison
• Should “sensate focus” have a place in couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy? by Susan Pacey
• Celebrating a Persian Winnicott by Mahyar Alinaghi

BOOK REVIEWS

• Ruthless Winnicott: The Role of Ruthlessness in Psychoanalysis and Political Protest by Sally Swartz – Reviewed by Catriona Wrottesley
• The Rough Patch. The Art of Living Together by Daphne de Marneffe – Reviewed by Christopher Clulow

ARTS REVIEWS

• Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-Garde Barbican Art Gallery – Reviewed by Martha Doniach
• The Height of the Storm by Florian Zeller, directed by Jonathan Kent – Reviewed by Laura Gibbons

Editorial

Molly Ludlam

Personal View

• Oedipus simplex: The British blind spot
  Deborah Anna Luepnitz
  
  

Articles

• The first Mrs Winnicott and the second Mrs Winnicott:
  Does psychoanalysis facilitate healthy marital choice?
  Brett Kahr
• Four Responses to “The first Mrs Winnicott and the second Mrs Winnicott:
  Does psychoanalysis facilitate healthy marital choice?” by Brett Kahr
  Jeremy Elkins, Bernard Macleod, Neil Vickers, and Lindsay Wells
• “On Winnicott’s marriages” a response
  Brett Kahr
• The Couple, the self, and the problem of the other
  Angela Joyce
• Re-visioning creativity in couple psychoanalysis: The importance of Winnicott and Bollas in clinical practice
  David Hewison
• Should “sensate focus” have a place in couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy?
  Susan Pacey 
• Celebrating a Persian Winnicott
  Mahyar Alinaghi

Book Reviews

Ruthless Winnicott: The Role of Ruthlessness in Psychoanalysis and Political Protest,
by Sally Swartz, London: Routledge, 2019
Reviewed by Catriona Wrottesley

The Rough Patch. The Art of Living Together,
by Daphne de Marneffe, London: Vintage, 2019
Reviewed by Christopher Clulow

Arts Reviews

Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde, Barbican Art Gallery,
Reviewed by Martha Doniach

The Height of the Storm, by Florian Zeller, directed by Jonathan Kent, translated by Christopher Hampton
Reviewed by Laura Gibbons

Notes on Contributors

Forthcoming Events

Instructions to Contributors

Editorial

pp. 7-10

Author: Ludlam, Molly

ARTICLES

• Sexual Fantasy, Unconscious Phantasy, and The Dynamics of Attachment*
  pp. 1-14
  Author: Clulow, Christopher
• Love, Hate, and Otherness in Intimate Relating*
  pp. 15-21(7)
  Author: Morgan, Mary
• Response to "Love, Hate, and Otherness in Intimate Relating" by Mary Morgan*
  pp. 22-23
  Author: Greco, Ondina
• Contemporary Approaches to the Encapsulation and Dispersion of Trauma: Holocaust Trauma As a Barrier to Couple Intimacy*
  pp. 24-35
  Authors: Mann-Shalvi, Hanni; Sehon, Caroline; Keogh, Timothy
• Developing Restorative Relationship Therapy: Towards Working Safely with Couples Where There is Abuse
  pp. 36-54
  Authors: Goupillot, Bob; McConville, Tim
• Brief Intervention with a Chinese Family of a School-Refusing Fourteen-Year-Old Girl
  pp. 55-72
  Authors: Scharff, David E.; Wanlass, Janine
• Joan Riviere's "the Bereaved Wife" (1945) and Beyond ...
  pp. 73-76
  Author: Bower, Marion

REVIEWS

• Occasional Review: "Psychotherapy Relationships That Work III" by John C. Norcross and Michael J. Lambert. Psychotherapy, 55(4): 303–315 (2018)*
  pp. 77-80
  Author: Hewison, David
• Book Review: Supporting Children When Parents Separate: Embedding a Crisis Intervention Approach Within Family Justice, Education and Mental Health Policy, by Mervyn Murch, Policy Press, 2018
  pp. 81-85
  Author: Box, Sally
• Arts Review: In a Lonely Place, directed by Nicholas Ray, USA, 1950
  pp. 86-87
  Author: Hardy, Ann
• Arts Review: Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf, adapted by Hal Coase, directed by Thomas Bailey, at the Arcola Theatre, Dalston, London, October 2018
  pp. 88-89
  Author: Shane, Ruth
• The Congress and the Confluence: Thoughts on the AIPCF Congress, Lyon, France, 26–28 July, 2018
  pp. 90-93
  Authors: Jools, Penny; Freeman, Brad

Editorial

Molly Ludlam

Personal View

Andrew Balfour

Articles

• “Suddenly the Window Opened and I Saw . . .” Twenty-second Enid Balint
  Memorial Lecture 2017
  Ignês Sodré  
• Response to “Suddenly the Window
  Opened and I Saw . . .” by Ignês Sodré
  Krisztina Glausius  
• A Partnership of Two Therapeutic Models:
  The Development of Mentalization Based Treatment—Couple Therapy (MBT–CT)
  Within A Psychoanalytic Framework
  Viveka Nyberg and Leezah Hertzmann
• On Increasing Session Frequency in
  Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy:
  Some Clinical Considerations
  Amita Sehgal
• Conception “In Vitro”: A Composite
  Framework in Psychotherapy with a Couple
  Hana Salaam Abdel-Malek  

Letter to the Editor

Errata

Damian McCann

Occasional Review

• Psychodynamic therapy: as efficacious as other empirically supported treatments? A meta-analysis testing equivalence of outcomes
  by C. Steinert, T. Munder, S. Rabung, J. Hoyer, & F. Leichsenring
  Reviewed by David Hewison

Book Reviews

• Family And Couple Psychoanalysis:
  A Global Perspective
  edited by David Scharff & Elizabeth Palacios
  Reviewed by Sanna Aavaluoma
• Handbook of Attachment. Theory, Research,
  and Clinical Applications
  edited by Jude Cassidy and Phillip R. Shaver
  Reviewed by Christopher Clulow  
• Couples on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Couple
  Therapy and the Tavistock Model,
  by S. Nathans and M. Schaefer
  Reviewed by Catriona Wrottesley

Arts Reviews

• Disturbing the Peace
  directed by Stephen Apkon and Andrew Young Reviewed by Perrine Moran
• The Ferryman
  by Jez Butterworth
  Reviewed by Stella Vaines

Report

• Summary of Couple and Family Presentations: International Psychoanalytical Association, 50th Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina 25–29 July 2017 by Shelley Nathans

Obituary

• Nina Cohen 1934–2017
  An appreciation by Christopher Clulow

Notes on Contributors

Forthcoming Events

Instructions to Contributors

Editorial

Molly Ludlam

Articles

• “Somewhere (There’s a place for us)…”: A cross-cultural approach to psychoanalytic psychotherapy with cross-cultural couples
  Perrine Moran
• The role of interpretation in the assessment phase of couple psychoanalysis
  Timothy Keogh & Cynthia Gregory-Roberts
• Response to “The role of interpretation in the assessment phase of couple psychoanalysis”
  Damian McCann
• Response to “The role of interpretation in the assessment phase of couple psychoanalysis”
  Alicia Leisse de Lustgarten
• Does Oedipus never die? The grandparental couple grapple with “Oedipus”
  Catriona Wrottesley
• Fear of break-up, fear of breakdown: why some can come to psychoanalysis only as a partner in a couple
  Klaus Wiedermann

Book Reviews

• Lectures on Technique by Melanie Klein 
  edited with Critical Review by John Steiner
  Reviewed by Francis Grier
• Handbook of Emotions (Fourth Edition)
  edited by Lisa Feldman Barrett, Michael Lewis, and Jeanette Haviland-Jones
  Reviewed by Christopher Clulow
• From Ultrasound to Army: The Unconscious Trajectories of Masculinity in Israel,
  by Hanni Mann-Shalvi
  Reviewed by Mónica Vorchheimer

Arts Reviews

• Manchester by the sea directed by Kenneth Lonergan, 2016.
  Reviewed by Kate Thompson
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee directed by James Macdonald
  National Theatre Live, May 2017
  Reviewed by Christopher Clulow
• Consent by Nina Raine directed by Roger Michell
  Reviewed by Marian O’Connor

Poem

• A Mind of its Own
  Robert Monzo

Reports

• International Congress on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis
  “Interpretation in Family and Couple Psychoanalysis”
  Madrid, 23-26 February, 2017
  Jill Savege Scharff

The SPRING Project

Vivian Eskin and Elizabeth Fritsch