Scharff - Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy: Foundations of Theory and Practice

Susanna Abse is Senior Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and CEO of The Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships (TCCR), London, UK. She is a full member and past Vice Chair of the British Society of Couple Psychotherapists and Counsellors. Recently, she has co-developed a new mentalization-based intervention for parents in destructive conflict over parenting issues, many of them post-separation. She is the author of several articles and papers on clinical work and on family policy in the UK.

Carl Bagnini, L.C.S.W., B.C.D., private practice, Port Washington, NY; Founding and Senior Faculty Member, The International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) in Chevy Chase, MD and Long Island, NY; Clinical faculty, Adelphi University's Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies and New York University's Post-Master Certificate Program in Child & Family Therapy; Clinical Supervisor, Yeshiva University's Ferkauf Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology. His new book, Keeping Couples in Treatment: Working from Surface to Depth is published by Jason Aronson.

Christel Buss-Twachtmann, BSc, Dip. Mar. Psych, member, British Society for Couple Psychotherapy and Counselling; Clinician and former Director of Training, Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships. For two years, she co-organized the international course Foundations of Couple Psychotherapy on which this book is based.

Pierre Cachia is a counselling psychologist, individual psychotherapist and couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice; clinical staff member and tutor on the Postgraduate Diploma in Individual and Couple Counselling at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships;staff member on the Doctorate in Counselling and Psychotherapeutic Psychology, University of Surrey.

Norma Caruso, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Richmond, Virginia; Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Medical College of Virginia; faculty, International Psychotherapy Institute; sex therapist, certified by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists. She has published several articles on the evaluation and treatment of sexual dysfunction in couples.

Christopher Clulow, Ph.D., is Senior Fellow and former Director of the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, editorial advisor for the international journal Sexual and Relationship Therapy, editorial board member for Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, and has published extensively on marriage, partnerships, parenthood and couple psychotherapy. Author and editor, he most recently edited Sex, Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy: Psychoanalytic Perspectives. He maintains a private clinical and training practice in St. Albans, England.

David Hewison, D.Cpl.Psych.Psych., is a consultant couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist and the Head of Research at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships in London. He is a developmentally trained Jungian Analyst and has developed an integrative model of brief couple therapy for treating depression for the National Health Service. Author of many papers on psychoanalytic and Jungian themes, he teaches internationally.

Tamar Kichli-Borochovsky is an accredited marital and family therapist and certified bibliotherapist. She has a Master's Degree from Haifa University and is presently in a doctoral program. She is a student in the Tel Aviv affiliate of IPI's international couple psychotherapy course. Tamar provides family and marital therapy privately and supervises bibliotherapy students at Haifa University. Her book Rehabilitation Stories is in publication.

Hanni Mann-Shalvi, Ph.D., a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the Director of the International Institute for Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Therapy Training in Israel, which is affiliated with IPI; adjunct faculty to the Couple, Child and Family Program of IPI. She teaches at the Hebrew University, and is a board member of the International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. She has a private practice in Tel Aviv of individual and couple psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and supervision.

Damian McCann is a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist at TCCR and a consultant family and systemic psychotherapist in the NHS. He is a clinical associate of Pink Therapy Services, where he delivers training on the Diploma in Gender and Sexual Diversities. His clinical doctorate in Systemic Psychotherapy explored violence and abuse in couple relationships of gay men. He has extensive clinical experience with same-sex couples.

Mary Morgan is a consultant couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, and member of the British Psychoanalytical Society; Head of the MA in Couple PsychoanalyticPsychotherapy at TCCR; and a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association's Psychoanalytic Perspectives of Families and Couples Working Group. She has published widely on couple psychoanalytic therapy. She has developed couple psychotherapy trainings in several countries, including Sweden and the USA.

James Poulton, Ph.D., is a psychologist in private practice in Salt Lake City, Adjunct Professor in Psychology at the University of Utah, and faculty member of IPI. He is the author of Object Relations and Relationality in Couple Therapy.

David E. Scharff, M.D., is former Director and Chair of the Board of IPI; Honorary Fellow, TCCR; Honorary Member, British Society of Couple Psychotherapists and Counsellors; Chair, the International Psychoanalytical Association's Couple and Family Working Group; former Vice-President, International Association for Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. He is author and editor of thirty books and numerous articles, most recently, with Jill Savege Scharff, The Interpersonal Unconscious, and with Sverre Varvin, Psychoanalysis in China.

Jill Savege Scharff, M.D., is co-Founder and former co-Director of the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI); Founding Chair of the International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training at IPI; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University, Washington DC; Honorary Fellow, TCCR; Honorary Member, British Society of Couple Psychotherapists and Counsellors; Author and editor of twenty-five books and numerous articles, including