Clinical Dialogues on Psychoanalysis with Families and Couples

David E. Scharff, MD, is Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association's Committee on Family and Couple Psychoanalysis; Chair of the Board, Founder and former Director of the International Psychotherapy Institute, Washington, DC; and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal 'Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China', and author and editor of numerous books and articles, including 'The Sexual Relationship', 'Object Relations Family Therapy' (with Jill Savege Scharff), 'Object Relations Couple Therapy', 'The Interpersonal Unconscious', and 'Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy'. Monica Vorchheimer is a training and supervising analyst, Buenos Aires Psychoanalytical Association (APdeBA); full member, International Psychoanalytical Association and member of IPA Committee on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis; member, Latin American Psychoanalytic Federation (FEPAL), the European Federation of Psychotherapy (FEAP); and honorary member of AAPPIPNA (Spain). She is currently Professor at the University Institute of Mental Health in Buenos Aires, where she is in private practice.

'This book is truly remarkable. It has two great qualities. The first concerns its organization: each chapter is introduced by a clinical situation centering on a significant issue within the practical and theoretical realms of analytic family psychotherapy. The presentation of the case and its discussion by colleagues shed light on the dimensions of the issue. The second quality is connected with the large number of contributors and the wide range of psychoanalytic cultures of the participants, most of whom work in English-speaking and Latin American countries. This book thoroughly illustrates a realm of psychoanalytic clinical practice and research that has long remained on the fringes of practices and theories that focus on the cure of a singular subject. Based on these new data, we need to rethink the ways in which the unconscious produces its specific effects in families and couples, effects that are "only accessible" through the psychoanalytic method.'- Rene Kaes, founder and Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Research in Psychopathology and Clinical Psychology at the University of Lumiere Lyon 2 (France); author of Linking, Alliances and Shared Space: Groups and the Psychoanalyst- 'This book debates, makes us think, and challenges notions that we considered already established, and invites us to travel through living, enriching experiences.'- Julio Moreno, professor at Buenos Aires University and author of How We Became Human; from the Prologue

• Series Editor’s Foreword , Preface , Introduction: global richness and global difference , Historical remarks , Narrative and family identity , When 1 + 1 is >2 and Never 3 , A valediction forbidding mourning: working with traumatic repetition in an older couple 1 , If inside wants out, if outside wants in: family and little children , Psychoanalytic crisis intervention with a Chinese family , Projective decompensation: mourning the loss of projective identifications in a couple , Working on links , Initial interviews with … a family? , A couple struggling for adulthood , Epilogue