Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy

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'. Jill Savege Scharff, MD, FABP (USA), is Co-founder of the International Psychotherapy Institute; Supervising Analyst at the International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University; and psychoanalyst and psychotherapist with individuals, couples and families in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Jill is an author, editor, and series editor of many books, several co-authored with David E. Scharff.

Series Editor’s Foreword , Preface and Acknowledgements , Fundamental Principles of Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy , An overview of psychodynamic couple therapy , Shared unconscious phantasy in couples , Intimacy and the couple—the long and winding road , Attachment, affect regulation, and couple psychotherapy , Aggression in couples: an object relations primer , Getting back to or getting back at: understanding overt aggression in couple relationships , Responding to the clinical needs of same-sex couples , The selfdyad in the dynamic organisation of the couple , Dreams in analytic couple therapy , Why can being a creative couple be so difficult to achieve? The impact of early anxieties on relating , Assessment And Treatment , The couple state of mind and some aspects of the setting in couple psychotherapy , Establishing a therapeutic relationship in analytic couple therapy , The triangular field of couple containment , Projection, introjection, intrusive identification, adhesive identification , Negotiating individual and joint transferences in couple therapy , Narcissism in a couple with a cocaine-addicted partner , The dream space in analytic couple therapy , Clinical narrative and discussion: a couple who lost joy , Understanding and Treating Sexual Issues , How development structures sexual relationships , Assessing the sexual relationship , Addressing sexual issues in couple therapy , Unconscious meanings and consequences of abortion in the life of couples , Working with affairs , Special Topics , The couple as parents: the role of children in couple treatment , Divorce and parenting wars , Trauma in the Couple , Treating Intergenerational Trauma: The Bomb that Exploded Me Continues to Blow up My Family , But My Partner “Is” the Problem: Addressing Addiction, Mood Disorders, and Psychiatric Illness in Psychoanalytic Couple Treatment , The Ending of Couple Therapy with a Couple Who Recovered Joy , Epilogue