Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 12 Number 1 – Special Issue: Therapy in the time of Covid-19

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 by Jill Savege Scharff

ARTICLES

– Community Response to the Impact of COVID: Psychoanalytic crisis intervention with a couple by Elizabeth Palacios

– Commentaries on Palacios’s paper by Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose and Leora Benioff

– COVID-19, Catastrophic Lockdown, and a Couple Retreat by Joanne Brown

– To Gaze beyond the Screen: Appreciating the communicative function of mise en scène in online psychotherapy by Pierre Cachia

– How Close is Too Close? Some thoughts on couple psychotherapy in a time of constricted living imposed by Covid by Kate Thompson

– Inside Out and Outside In: Exploring the interplay between social and psychic structures in the pandemic era by Andi Pilecki Eliza-Christie

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

THE 2021 SIGOURNEY AWARD

David Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff