Family and Couple Psychoanalysis

About the Author

Elizabeth Palacios, MD, is a psychiatrist, adult and child psychoanalyst, and a member of the Child and Adolescent Department in APM (The Psychoanalytic Association of Madrid). She trained in Argentina and Spain in Madrid's Psychoanalytical Association, and is a member of the IPA's Committee on Family and Couple Psychoanalysis. She is also the founder, president, professor, and supervising analyst in Aragon's Society for the Research of Child and Adolescent Psychic Life, and a member of the Spanish Federation of Associations of Psychotherapists. She has published several books and papers on child and adolescent psychoanalysis, and is currently in private practice in Zaragoza, Spain. 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'.