Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 10 Number 2

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

– Couples for couples: co-therapy as interpretive action by Christopher Clulow and Amita Sehgal

– Drugs, sex and love: narrative of an object relations couple therapy by Jill Savege Scharff and Dina Oren

CENTENARY CELEBRATION

– The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, 1920-2020 by Brett Kahr

– A brief history of Tavistock Relationships by Andrew Balfour

– Our relationship to the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology and Tavistock Relationships by Jill Savege Scharff and David E. Scharff

– Four decades of international collaboration with Tavistock Relationships by Philip A. Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan

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

– Commentary on Integrative Teaching and Treatment Modalities in Couple Psychosexual Therapy: reply to Susan Pacey by Carla Trusty-Smith

OCCASIONAL REVIEWS

– Mental health implications of COVID-19 quarantine and the experience of online couple therapy by David Hewison

– Psychic space and psychic retreats: Reflections on Tavistock Relationships 2019 Advanced Couples Summer School by Gael Beckett

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