Couple and Family Psychoanalysis provides a forum for disseminating current ideas and research and for developing clinical practice.
It is sponsored by the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology and published by Phoenix Publishing House.
These can include original papers, articles, debates, reports, arts and book reviews, and other submissions of interest and importance to its readership. Submissions to the Journal are processed electronically through ScholarOne software. Full details about the submission process and house style, as well as information about subscriptions, can be found on the publisher’s website.
Editorial by Elizabeth Palacios
The binds that bond: disavowed vulnerability in couples with early relational trauma
Ortal Kirson-Trilling
Through a glass darkly: Bion, unknowing, and the couple
Judith Pickering
Hate in the service of love: the negative therapeutic reaction revisited in couple therapy
James Poulton and Sefi Hassin
Sexual aversion disorder: a case study, conceptualised and treated from a psychodynamic perspective
Norma Caruso
On psychoanalytic psychotherapy with aggressive couples
Anastasia Tsamparli
On couple countertransference: thoughts about the therapist’s experience in psychoanalytic work with couples
Robert Monzo
Mum
by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, directed by Abigail Graham
Reviewed by Marian O’Connor
Couples Therapy
produced for Showtime, USA (2019–2021)
Reviewed by Ella Bahaire
After Love, Aleem Khan (director), 2021. Supernova, Harry Macqueen (director), 2021. Reviewed by Catriona Wrottesley
The International Review of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 26(1): Advances in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis in Today’s World 2
L’Association Française des Centres de Consultation Conjugale
Dialogues 235 and 236
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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!
ARTICLES
PERSONAL VIEW – Oedipus simplex: the British blind spot by Deborah Anna Luepnitz
Molly Ludlam
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
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
pp. 7-10
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Molly Ludlam
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Molly Ludlam
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