Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 11 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.

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

ARTICLES

– Notes on working with divorcing and separating couples by Avi Shmueli

– Micro-separations: how to traumatise your spouse on a daily basis by Brett Kahr

– Fractured families, fractured systems: overcoming the silo mentality in family justice work by Amita Sehgal

– Co-parent therapy and the parenting plan as transitional phenomena: working psychoanalytically with high conflict separating and divorcing couples by Dana Iscoff

– Creating a family state of mind: using psychoanalytic ideas to treat families where children resist or refuse contact with a parent by Kathy Sinsheimer

– Marriage and remarriage: different stages of a dating relationship by Isabel Cristina Gomes and Lidia Levy

– Divorce in China by David Scharff

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

– Review of Christopher Clulow filmed interview of Professor Mervyn Murch about his work in the Family Justice System concerning family breakdown and the care of children of divorced and separated parents – by Avi Schmueli