Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 11 Number 1 – Special Issue: Separation and Divorce

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.

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

– The role of secrets in the invention or reinvention of families by Susana Muszkat and Monica Vorchheimer

– 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

– Creative illusion in couples: thoughts about the value of transitional experience for couple relationships by Julie Friend

– The application of contemporary self psychology to couple psychotherapy by Carla Leone

– Shame, culture, and gender: rethinking the treatment model for couple therapy after an affair by Yun Pang

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