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.

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