Families in Transformation

Pierre Benghozi, is a psychiatrist, child psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychoanalytical therapist for group, couple and family, training analyst and supervisor. He is President of the Research Institute for Psychoanalysis of the couple and the family, and Professor at Sao Paulo University, Brazil. He is also a Board Member of the European Federation Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (EFPP) and a member of the French SFTFP Society of psychoanalytical family psychotherapy, and the International Association of couple and family psychoanalysis (AIPCF). He is a former vice-president of the French Society of psychoanalytical group therapy (SFPPG), and a member of the Editorial Board of the French Review of Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy. Daniela Lucarelli is psychologist, psychoanalyst, full member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI), and an expert in psychoanalysis with children and adolescents. She is a member of the EFPP Board and of the International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (IACFP). She teaches in the ASNE-SIPSIA Specialization Programme in Psychotherapy with Children, Adolescents and Couples in Rome. She is editor of the 'International Review of Psychoanalysis of Couple and Family'. Anna Maria Nicolo, MD, is a member of the board of the Representatives of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), and since 2005 has been chair of the forum for adolescence of the European Psychoanalytical Federation (FEP). She is a founder member of the Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Children, Adolescents and Couples (SIPsIA), scientific secretary of the Istituto Winnicott (ASNE-SIPSIA), and member of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (EFPP). She was President of the Italian Society of Psychoanalysis for Couples and Families (PCF), and co-founder of the AIPCF (International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis). She was co-editor of the collection 'Contemporary Psychoanalysis', director of the journal 'Interazioni', and co-founder and former director of the International Review of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (AIPCF).

'This brilliant book has long been awaited in the psychoanalytic community. It details in an exhaustive way the state of the art in the field of psychoanalytic family therapy, and describes the current approaches to theory and clinical work in couples and families, as well as the different shades of meaning developed by the most prominent contemporary authors writing on this subject. This work is not only for family therapists, but also addresses the entire psychoanalytic community. Gone are the times when it was commonplace to say that family therapy was opposed to individual therapy. Now such opposition has been overcome in favour of synergy, and this book convincingly shows how this shift has taken place. The authors have drawn in a creative way from different areas of knowledge, reaping a wealth of theories, perspectives, and clinical evidence that will enrich all therapists.'- Antonino Ferro, President of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society (SPI) and member of the American Psychoanalytic AssociationContributors: Ines Aramburu, Berta Aznar-Martinez, Pierre Benghozi, Montse Davins, Alberto Eiguer, Ludovica Grassi, Rosa Jaitin, Rene Kaes, Jean-Georges Lemaire, Daniela Lucarelli, Anna Maria Nicolo, Diana Norsa, Carles Perez-Testor, Giorgio Rigamonti, Philippe Robert, Stanley Ruszczynski, Manel Salamero, Massimiliano Sommantico, Simona Taccani, Gabriela Tavazza

• Series Editor’s Preface , Preface , Prologue , Introduction , Couples and Families Today , The psychical reality of linking , Intersubjective links in the family: the function of identification , The mythic narrative neo-container in psychoanalytic family therapy: shame and treason as heritage , Where is the unconscious located? Reflections on links in families and couples , The frightened couple , Adoptive families: what pathways for subjectivisation? , Transformations through repetitions of female and male representations in reconstructed families , Oedipus in the New Families , The Oedipus complex and the new generations , When the fraternal prevails over the oedipal: a possible interpretative model for modern couples , Clinical Work with Families and Couples , Couples and the perverse link , Couple and family psychoanalytic psychotherapy’s contribution to current psychoanalysis , Fraternal incest: fraternal links , Anamorphosis, sloughing of containers, and family psychical transformations , Infidelity in the couple relationship: one form of relationship suffering , The other, the stranger, the unconscious: psychoanalysis and multi-ethnic therapeutic relationships , Old and new couple secrets: how to deal with them? , Family myths * and pathological links