David E. Scharff - Clinical Dialogues on Psychoanalysis with Families and Couples

The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis

Series Editors: Susanna Abse, Christopher Clulow, Brett Kahr, and
David E. Scharff

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How Couple Relationships Shape Our World: Clinical Practice, Research, and Policy Perspectives

edited by Andrew Balfour, Mary Morgan, and Christopher Vincent

What Makes Us Stay Together? Attachment and the Outcomes of Couple Relationships

Rosetta Castellano, Patrizia Velotti, and Giulio Cesare Zavattini

Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy: Foundations of Theory and Practice

edited by David E. Scharff, and Jill Savege Scharff

Family and Couple Psychoanalysis: A Global Perspective

edited by David E. Scharff and Elizabeth Palacios

edited by

David E. Scharff and
Monica Vorchheimer

From the Committee on Family and Couple Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical Association

First published 2017 by
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INTRODUCTION :
Global richness and global difference
Monica Vorchheimer and David E. Scharff

CHAPTER ONE
Historical remarks

Carlos Guillermo Bigliani

Roberto Losso

Rodolfo Moguillansky

CHAPTER TWO
Narrative and family identity
Anna Maria Nicol

Janine Puget

Richard M. Zeitner

CHAPTER THREE
When 1 + 1 is >2 and Never 3
Mary Morgan and Lissy Abrahams

Caroline Sehon

Sonia Kleiman

CHAPTER FOUR
A valediction forbidding mourning: working with traumatic repetition in an older couple1
Timothy Keogh and Cynthia Gregory-Roberts

Carlos Guillermo Bigliani

Silvia Nussbaum

CHAPTER FIVE
If inside wants out, if outside wants in:
family and little children
Regina Maria Rahmi

Ricardo Juan Rey

Zuli Rosa ONeill Cabrera

CHAPTER SIX
Psychoanalytic crisis intervention with a Chinese family
Jill Savege Scharff and David E. Scharff

Miguel Alejo Spivacow

Isabel Cristina Gomes

CHAPTER SEVEN
Projective decompensation: mourning the loss of
projective identifications in a couple
Luca Morabito

Mary Morgan

Karen Proner

CHAPTER EIGHT
Working on links
Elizabeth Palacios

Lin Tao

Susana Muszkat

CHAPTER NINE
Initial interviews with a family?
Monica Vorchheimer

David E. Scharff

Monica Vorchheimer

CHAPTER TEN
A couple struggling for adulthood
Richard M. Zeitner

Teresa Nora Popiloff

David E. Scharff and Monica Vorchheimer

David E. Scharff , MD, is Chair of the IPA Committee on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, Founder, Board Chair, and former Director of the International Psychotherapy Institute, Washington, DC, Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China , and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University and the Uniformed Services University (Washington, DC). He is the author or editor of seventy-five articles and thirty-five books, including recently The Interpersonal Unconscious (with Jill Savege Scharff, 2011); Family and Couple Psychoanalysis: A Global Perspective (edited with Elizabeth Palacios, 2016).

Monica Vorchheimer is a training and supervising analyst, Buenos Aires Psychoanalytical Association (APdeBA); full member, Inter national Psychoanalytical Association and member of IPA Committee on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. She is a member of the Latin American Psychoanalytic Federation (FEPAL), the European Federation of Psycho therapy (FEAP) and honorary member of AAPPIPNA (Spain), and a professor at the University Institute of Mental Health in Buenos Aires, where she is also in private practice.

Lissy Abrahams is the founder of a therapeutic practice in Sydney Australia called the Heath Group Practice. She works with individuals and couples providing therapy and family dispute resolution. Lissy trained and worked as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the Tavistock Relations (formerly Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships) in London. Lissy held positions on the Executive Committee and the Membership Committee of the British Society of Couple Psychotherapists and Counsellors and was Vice President of the Couple and Family Psychotherapy Association of Australasia.

Carlos Guillermo Bigliani is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and a member of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association (APDEBA-IPA). He is a former professor of the School of Medicine and Psychology at the University of Buenos Aires and Pontificia Universidade Catolica at So Paulo, where he was also founder and professor of the Postgraduate Program of Psychoanalysis, Sedes Sapiensae Institute. Currently, he teaches family therapy in the University of So Paulo (USP). He has published articles and books, most recently Humiliation and Shame (Karnac, 2013).

Isabel Gomes is Full Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology at the University of So Paulo-USP/Brasil, Coordinator of the Couple and Family Laboratory: Psychosocial Studies and Clinic, a member of AIPCF, and a psychoanalyst. She has publications on the subject of psychoanalysis of couples.

Cynthia Gregory-Roberts is a couple and family psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Sydney, Australia. She is a member of the Australian Association of Social Workers and College of Social Work and an accredited Mental Health Social Worker. She is also a Member of the Couple and Family Psychotherapy Association of Australasia and an experienced supervisor of mental health professionals.

Timothy Keogh , PhD, is a training analyst and full member of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society, a member (for Oceania) of the IPA Committee for Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, a Board Member of the International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis and the International Advisory Board for