Brief Encounters with Couples

Francis Grier is an Associate Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is also a Full Member of the Society of Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists. He is a Visiting Research Lecturer at the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute, where he was previously a Senior Marital Psychotherapist and Clinical Lecturer. He has a private practice for individuals and couples. He edited 'Brief Encounters with Couples: Some Analytical Perspectives', which was published by Karnac in 2001.

Foreword , Introduction , First contacts: the therapist’s “couple state of mind” as a factor in the containment of couples seen for consultations , Thoughts about the couple relationship following the death of a child , Brief encounters: work with parents and infants in an under-fives’ counselling service , Brief work with parents of infants , Giving advice during consultations: unconscious enactment or thoughtful containment? , Emotional contact and containment in psychosexual medicine , A psychoanalytic approach to brief marital psychotherapy , The court, the couple, and the consultant: is there room for a third position?