Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 8 Number 2

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 8 Number 2

Author: Molly Ludlam

Publisher: Phoenix Publishing House

Published: 2018-10-22

Total Pages: 120

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Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by Tavistock Relationships, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective. It seeks to provide a forum for disseminating current ideas and research and for developing clinical practice. The annual subscription provides two issues a year. Articles - Aesthetics in psychoanalytic couple therapy by Barbara Bianchini and Franco Scabbiolo - The disintermediation of desire: from 3D(esire) to 2D(esire): Twenty-third Enid Balint Memorial Lecture by Alessandra Lemma - Response to “The disintermediation of desire: from 3D(esire) to 2D(esire)” by Alessandra Lemma by Catriona Wrottesleyn - Treating the seriously ill patient in psychoanalytic couple therapy: considerations and modifications of technique by Richard M. Zeitner - Response to “Treating the seriously ill patient in psychoanalytic couple therapy: considerations and modifications of technique” by Richard Zeitner by Damian McCann - Sex and the couple: tragedy or comedy? By David Hewison


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Download or read book Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 8 Number 2 written by Molly Ludlam and published by Phoenix Publishing House. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by Tavistock Relationships, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective. It seeks to provide a forum for disseminating current ideas and research and for developing clinical practice. The annual subscription provides two issues a year. Articles - Aesthetics in psychoanalytic couple therapy by Barbara Bianchini and Franco Scabbiolo - The disintermediation of desire: from 3D(esire) to 2D(esire): Twenty-third Enid Balint Memorial Lecture by Alessandra Lemma - Response to “The disintermediation of desire: from 3D(esire) to 2D(esire)” by Alessandra Lemma by Catriona Wrottesleyn - Treating the seriously ill patient in psychoanalytic couple therapy: considerations and modifications of technique by Richard M. Zeitner - Response to “Treating the seriously ill patient in psychoanalytic couple therapy: considerations and modifications of technique” by Richard Zeitner by Damian McCann - Sex and the couple: tragedy or comedy? By David Hewison

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 6 Number 2

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 6 Number 2

Author: Molly Ludlam

Publisher: Phoenix Publishing House

Published: 2016-09-30

Total Pages: 102

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Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by Tavistock Relationships, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective. It seeks to provide a forum for disseminating current ideas and research and for developing clinical practice. The annual subscription provides two issues a year. Articles - The Contribution of Enrique Pichon-Rivière: Comparisons with His European Contemporaries and with Modern Theory by David E. Scharff - Ways and Voices in the Psychoanalysis of Links According to Enrique Pichon-Rivière by Rosa Jaitin - The Links: What is Produced in the Space Between Others by Sonia Kleiman - Link and Transference Within Three Interfering Psychic Spaces by René Kaës - An Object Relations Approach to the Couple Relationship: Past, Present, and Future by Mary Morgan - Thinking in Terms of Links by Anna Maria Nicolò


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Download or read book Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 6 Number 2 written by Molly Ludlam and published by Phoenix Publishing House. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by Tavistock Relationships, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective. It seeks to provide a forum for disseminating current ideas and research and for developing clinical practice. The annual subscription provides two issues a year. Articles - The Contribution of Enrique Pichon-Rivière: Comparisons with His European Contemporaries and with Modern Theory by David E. Scharff - Ways and Voices in the Psychoanalysis of Links According to Enrique Pichon-Rivière by Rosa Jaitin - The Links: What is Produced in the Space Between Others by Sonia Kleiman - Link and Transference Within Three Interfering Psychic Spaces by René Kaës - An Object Relations Approach to the Couple Relationship: Past, Present, and Future by Mary Morgan - Thinking in Terms of Links by Anna Maria Nicolò

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 6 Number 1

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 6 Number 1

Author: Molly Ludlam

Publisher: Phoenix Publishing House

Published: 2016-03-30

Total Pages:

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Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by Tavistock Relationships, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective. It seeks to provide a forum for disseminating current ideas and research and for developing clinical practice. The annual subscription provides two issues a year. Editorial by Molly Ludlam Personal View - “Doesn’t He Speak in a Funny Language?” by Gordon T. Harold Articles - Implications of the Intergenerational Linking Functions for the Parental Selfdyad in the Treatment of a Narcissistic Adolescent by Richard M. Zeitner - Navigating Ambivalent States of Bodymind: Working with Intergenerationally Transmitted Holocaust Trauma in Couple Therapy by Julia Meyerowitz-Katz - What Does Ending Mean in Couple Psychotherapy? by Mary Morgan - Enactments at the Edge: Transformational Moments in Psychoanalytically Influenced Couple Therapy by Ken Israelstam - Supportive Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy by Ziva Levite, Idit Honigman, Hana Cohen, Liora Rehes, and Gidi Shavit - Meeting the Author - An Interview with Joy Schaverien by Catriona Wrottesley


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Download or read book Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 6 Number 1 written by Molly Ludlam and published by Phoenix Publishing House. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by Tavistock Relationships, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective. It seeks to provide a forum for disseminating current ideas and research and for developing clinical practice. The annual subscription provides two issues a year. Editorial by Molly Ludlam Personal View - “Doesn’t He Speak in a Funny Language?” by Gordon T. Harold Articles - Implications of the Intergenerational Linking Functions for the Parental Selfdyad in the Treatment of a Narcissistic Adolescent by Richard M. Zeitner - Navigating Ambivalent States of Bodymind: Working with Intergenerationally Transmitted Holocaust Trauma in Couple Therapy by Julia Meyerowitz-Katz - What Does Ending Mean in Couple Psychotherapy? by Mary Morgan - Enactments at the Edge: Transformational Moments in Psychoanalytically Influenced Couple Therapy by Ken Israelstam - Supportive Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy by Ziva Levite, Idit Honigman, Hana Cohen, Liora Rehes, and Gidi Shavit - Meeting the Author - An Interview with Joy Schaverien by Catriona Wrottesley

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 4 Number 2

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 4 Number 2

Author: Molly Ludlam

Publisher: Phoenix Publishing House

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 144

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Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by Tavistock Relationships, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective. It seeks to provide a forum for disseminating current ideas and research and for developing clinical practice. The annual subscription provides two issues a year. Articles - Developing a Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) for Therapeutic Intervention With Couples (MBT-CT) by Viveka Nyberg and Leezah Hertzmann - From Container to Claustrum: Projective Identification in Couples by Tamara Feldman - Children as Collateral in the Fear of Becoming Forgotten: Death Anxiety as the Ultimate Loss by Robert Waska - Sexual Desire Disorder: A Case Study from a Dynamic Perspective by Norma J. Caruso - Psychotherapy in Translation: One Clinician’s Experience of Working with Interpreters by Barbara Dearnley


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Download or read book Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 4 Number 2 written by Molly Ludlam and published by Phoenix Publishing House. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by Tavistock Relationships, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective. It seeks to provide a forum for disseminating current ideas and research and for developing clinical practice. The annual subscription provides two issues a year. Articles - Developing a Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) for Therapeutic Intervention With Couples (MBT-CT) by Viveka Nyberg and Leezah Hertzmann - From Container to Claustrum: Projective Identification in Couples by Tamara Feldman - Children as Collateral in the Fear of Becoming Forgotten: Death Anxiety as the Ultimate Loss by Robert Waska - Sexual Desire Disorder: A Case Study from a Dynamic Perspective by Norma J. Caruso - Psychotherapy in Translation: One Clinician’s Experience of Working with Interpreters by Barbara Dearnley

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 7 Number 2

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 7 Number 2

Author: Molly Ludlam

Publisher: Phoenix Publishing House

Published: 2017-09-30

Total Pages: 114

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Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by Tavistock Relationships, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective. It seeks to provide a forum for disseminating current ideas and research and for developing clinical practice. The annual subscription provides two issues a year. Articles - “Somewhere (There’s a Place for Us)...”: A Cross-cultural Approach to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Cross-cultural Couples by Perrine Moran - The Role of Interpretation in the Assessment Phase of Couple Psychoanalysis by Timothy Keogh and Cynthia Gregory-Roberts - Response to The Role of Interpretation in the Assessment Phase of Couple Psychoanalysis by Timothy Keogh and Cynthia Gregory-Roberts by Damian McCann - Response to The Role of Interpretation in the Assessment Phase of Couple Psychoanalysis by Timothy Keogh and Cynthia Gregory-Roberts by Alicia Leisse de Lustgarten - Does Oedipus Never Die? The Grandparental Couple Grapple with “Oedipus” by Catriona Wrottesley - Fear of Break-up, Fear of Breakdown: Why Some Can Come to Psychoanalysis Only as a Partner in a Couple by Klaus Wiedermann


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Download or read book Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 7 Number 2 written by Molly Ludlam and published by Phoenix Publishing House. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by Tavistock Relationships, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective. It seeks to provide a forum for disseminating current ideas and research and for developing clinical practice. The annual subscription provides two issues a year. Articles - “Somewhere (There’s a Place for Us)...”: A Cross-cultural Approach to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Cross-cultural Couples by Perrine Moran - The Role of Interpretation in the Assessment Phase of Couple Psychoanalysis by Timothy Keogh and Cynthia Gregory-Roberts - Response to The Role of Interpretation in the Assessment Phase of Couple Psychoanalysis by Timothy Keogh and Cynthia Gregory-Roberts by Damian McCann - Response to The Role of Interpretation in the Assessment Phase of Couple Psychoanalysis by Timothy Keogh and Cynthia Gregory-Roberts by Alicia Leisse de Lustgarten - Does Oedipus Never Die? The Grandparental Couple Grapple with “Oedipus” by Catriona Wrottesley - Fear of Break-up, Fear of Breakdown: Why Some Can Come to Psychoanalysis Only as a Partner in a Couple by Klaus Wiedermann

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 3 Number 2

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 3 Number 2

Author: Molly Ludlam

Publisher: Phoenix Publishing House

Published: 2013-09-30

Total Pages: 160

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Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by Tavistock Relationships, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective. It seeks to provide a forum for disseminating current ideas and research and for developing clinical practice. The annual subscription provides two issues a year. Articles - Psychic “Geodes”—The Presence of Absence 18th Enid Balint Memorial Lecture 2013 - by Joan Raphael-Leff - Response to Psychic “Geodes”—The Presence of Absence by Christopher Clulow - When a Problem Shared is a Problem...Whose Illness is it Anyway? Questions of Technique When Working With a Borderline Couple by Susanna Abse - Further thoughts on When a Problem Shared is a Problem... Whose Illness is it Anyway? by Susanna Abse - Mentalizing: An Exploration of its Potential Contribution to Understanding the Challenges Faced by Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors in Couple Therapy by Heather B. MacIntosh - Mentalization for Whom? Commentary on Article by Heather MacIntosh by Avi Shmueli - The Intergenerational and Cultural Transmission of Trauma in Chinese Couple Relationships by Janine Wanlass


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Download or read book Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 3 Number 2 written by Molly Ludlam and published by Phoenix Publishing House. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by Tavistock Relationships, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective. It seeks to provide a forum for disseminating current ideas and research and for developing clinical practice. The annual subscription provides two issues a year. Articles - Psychic “Geodes”—The Presence of Absence 18th Enid Balint Memorial Lecture 2013 - by Joan Raphael-Leff - Response to Psychic “Geodes”—The Presence of Absence by Christopher Clulow - When a Problem Shared is a Problem...Whose Illness is it Anyway? Questions of Technique When Working With a Borderline Couple by Susanna Abse - Further thoughts on When a Problem Shared is a Problem... Whose Illness is it Anyway? by Susanna Abse - Mentalizing: An Exploration of its Potential Contribution to Understanding the Challenges Faced by Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors in Couple Therapy by Heather B. MacIntosh - Mentalization for Whom? Commentary on Article by Heather MacIntosh by Avi Shmueli - The Intergenerational and Cultural Transmission of Trauma in Chinese Couple Relationships by Janine Wanlass

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 1 Number 2

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 1 Number 2

Author: Molly Ludlam

Publisher: Phoenix Publishing House

Published: 2011-09-30

Total Pages: 112

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Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by Tavistock Relationships, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective. It seeks to provide a forum for disseminating current ideas and research and for developing clinical practice. The annual subscription provides two issues a year. Articles - John Carl Flügel: The Forgotten Pioneer of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis by Brett Kahr - Psychological Aspects of Marriage and the Family (1935) John C. Flügel - Edited and annotated by Brett Kahr - Explorations With Families: A Model for Initial Family Therapy Meetings, Based on a Psychoanalytic Approach by Sally Box - Anger and Aggressiveness in Couple Therapy: Some Clinical Considerations from an Intersubjective Perspective by Fabio Monguzzi - Some Reflections on Reparation in Post-Apartheid South Africa, using a Couple Therapy Intervention as a Microcosm of South African Society by Andrea Hill and Sylvia Poss - Couple Work in South Africa: An Historical Overview from Cape Town by Andrea Hill and Adrian Perkel


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Download or read book Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 1 Number 2 written by Molly Ludlam and published by Phoenix Publishing House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by Tavistock Relationships, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective. It seeks to provide a forum for disseminating current ideas and research and for developing clinical practice. The annual subscription provides two issues a year. Articles - John Carl Flügel: The Forgotten Pioneer of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis by Brett Kahr - Psychological Aspects of Marriage and the Family (1935) John C. Flügel - Edited and annotated by Brett Kahr - Explorations With Families: A Model for Initial Family Therapy Meetings, Based on a Psychoanalytic Approach by Sally Box - Anger and Aggressiveness in Couple Therapy: Some Clinical Considerations from an Intersubjective Perspective by Fabio Monguzzi - Some Reflections on Reparation in Post-Apartheid South Africa, using a Couple Therapy Intervention as a Microcosm of South African Society by Andrea Hill and Sylvia Poss - Couple Work in South Africa: An Historical Overview from Cape Town by Andrea Hill and Adrian Perkel

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 5 Number 2

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 5 Number 2

Author: Molly Ludlam

Publisher: Phoenix Publishing House

Published: 2015-09-30

Total Pages: 128

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Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by Tavistock Relationships, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective. It seeks to provide a forum for disseminating current ideas and research and for developing clinical practice. The annual subscription provides two issues a year. Articles Ethical Issues in Work with Families: On Facing the Music or Not “Turning a Blind Eye” by Sally Box - Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Violent Couples: Understanding and Working with Domestic Violence by Julie Humphries and Damian McCann - Thinking about Publishing? On Seeking Patient Consent to Publish Case Material by Christopher Clulow, Ernest Wallwork, and Caroline Sehon - Ethics and Complaints Procedures for Psychoanalytic Organisations: Some Thoughts About Principles by Philip Stokoe - Becoming an Adolescent: a Body Changes in the Field of the Family by Isabel Duarte and Maria Emília Marques


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Download or read book Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 5 Number 2 written by Molly Ludlam and published by Phoenix Publishing House. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by Tavistock Relationships, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective. It seeks to provide a forum for disseminating current ideas and research and for developing clinical practice. The annual subscription provides two issues a year. Articles Ethical Issues in Work with Families: On Facing the Music or Not “Turning a Blind Eye” by Sally Box - Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Violent Couples: Understanding and Working with Domestic Violence by Julie Humphries and Damian McCann - Thinking about Publishing? On Seeking Patient Consent to Publish Case Material by Christopher Clulow, Ernest Wallwork, and Caroline Sehon - Ethics and Complaints Procedures for Psychoanalytic Organisations: Some Thoughts About Principles by Philip Stokoe - Becoming an Adolescent: a Body Changes in the Field of the Family by Isabel Duarte and Maria Emília Marques

Family and Couple Psychoanalysis

Family and Couple Psychoanalysis

Author: Elizabeth Palacios

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 042989936X

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This book explores family interaction and family psychoanalysis from varying standpoints used around the world. It illustrates these with extensive clinical cases discussed from varying perspectives. The book is the first in a series of volumes from the International Psychoanalytical Association's Working Group on Family and Couple Psychoanalysis, drawn from its ongoing research into comparative theories and methods of working analytically with families and couples, and with varying types of family structure. It also applies lessons from family psychoanalysis to analytic theory and to the practice of individual psychoanalysis.


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Download or read book Family and Couple Psychoanalysis written by Elizabeth Palacios and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores family interaction and family psychoanalysis from varying standpoints used around the world. It illustrates these with extensive clinical cases discussed from varying perspectives. The book is the first in a series of volumes from the International Psychoanalytical Association's Working Group on Family and Couple Psychoanalysis, drawn from its ongoing research into comparative theories and methods of working analytically with families and couples, and with varying types of family structure. It also applies lessons from family psychoanalysis to analytic theory and to the practice of individual psychoanalysis.

Interpretation in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis

Interpretation in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis

Author: Timothy Keogh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-24

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 0429565887

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This collection of contemporary clinically-oriented papers covers a range of theoretical approaches to the fundamentally important technical issue of interpretation. It offers thought-provoking, cross-cultural clinical perspectives about interpretation with illustrations from cutting edge clinical practice with couples and families. Divided into three sections, the first part of the book examines interpretation within the broader field of psychoanalysis, and notes how it has been applied to couple and family psychoanalysis. Part II considers the current use of interpretation with couples, including how it informs assessment, while Part III focuses on its application with families and considers a broad range of key topics, including the nature of family, social and intergenerational links, the arrival of a newborn, same sex couples’ families, bereavement in a family, and families with adolescent children. Each chapter includes a lively discussion piece. Interpretation in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Cross-Cultural Perspectives represents a major contribution to the field of couple and family psychoanalysis. It reflects the fruits of an unparalleled era of global collaboration and the resultant re-shaping of approaches to clinical practice with couples and families. Mental health professionals dealing with couples and families will find it to have immediate relevance to their clinical work, either in their institutional or private practice.


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Download or read book Interpretation in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis written by Timothy Keogh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of contemporary clinically-oriented papers covers a range of theoretical approaches to the fundamentally important technical issue of interpretation. It offers thought-provoking, cross-cultural clinical perspectives about interpretation with illustrations from cutting edge clinical practice with couples and families. Divided into three sections, the first part of the book examines interpretation within the broader field of psychoanalysis, and notes how it has been applied to couple and family psychoanalysis. Part II considers the current use of interpretation with couples, including how it informs assessment, while Part III focuses on its application with families and considers a broad range of key topics, including the nature of family, social and intergenerational links, the arrival of a newborn, same sex couples’ families, bereavement in a family, and families with adolescent children. Each chapter includes a lively discussion piece. Interpretation in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Cross-Cultural Perspectives represents a major contribution to the field of couple and family psychoanalysis. It reflects the fruits of an unparalleled era of global collaboration and the resultant re-shaping of approaches to clinical practice with couples and families. Mental health professionals dealing with couples and families will find it to have immediate relevance to their clinical work, either in their institutional or private practice.