A Couple State of Mind

A Couple State of Mind references contemporary influences of other psychoanalytic approaches to couples, particularly from an international perspective. It will be invaluable for all students learning about psychoanalytic work with couples for other psychoanalytic practitioners interested in this field.

Mary Morgan is a Psychanalyst and Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Reader in Couple Psychoanalysis at Tavistock Relationships.

Series Editor Foreword by Susanna Abse Foreword by Ronald Britton 1. A Psychoanalytic Understanding of the Couple Relationship: Past, Present, and Future 2. Assessment 3. Engaging a Couple in Treatment and Establishing a Couple Analytic Setting 4. Unconscious Phantasy, Shared Unconscious Phantasy and Shared Defence, Unconscious Beliefs and Fantasy 5. Transference and Countertransference and the Living Inner World of the Couple 6. Projective Identification and the Couple Projective System 7. Narcissism and Sharing Psychic Space 8. The Couples Psychic Development, Sex, Gender and Sexualities 9. Interpretation 10. Endings and the Aim of Couple Therapy