Series: The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis

This book explores family interaction and family psychoanalysis from varying standpoints used around the world. It illustrates these with extensive clinical cases discussed from varying perspectives. The book is the first in a series of volumes from the International Psychoanalytical Association's Working Group on Family and Couple Psychoanalysis, drawn from its ongoing research into comparative theories and methods of working...

This book is about the importance of the couple relationship in the broadest terms. It draws on clinical researches into the inner lived world of adult couples, empirical developmental research into children and parenting, as well as the legal setting when relationships break down. It aims to bridge the inner and outer worlds, showing how our most intimate relationships have...

In recent years, commentators have speculated on the "collapse" of the couple and the family, highlighting the increasing fragility of couple relationships, making them vulnerable to crises and breakups. Now, more than ever, and prompted by changes that have shaken our assumptions about the socio/cultural context, the reasons that make couple relationships unstable are sought in the negotiations and redefinitions...