Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 9 Number 2

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

PERSONAL VIEW – Oedipus simplex: the British blind spot by Deborah Anna Luepnitz

ARTICLES

– The first Mrs Winnicott and the second Mrs Winnicott: does psychoanalysis facilitate healthy marital choice? by Brett Kahr

– Responses to “The first Mrs Winnicott and the second Mrs Winnicott: does psychoanalysis facilitate healthy marital choice?” by Brett Kahr: “Of the nature of a therapeutic act” by Jeremy Elkins

Thoughts on Winnicott’s childless state and its relation to his profound contributions to childhood development theory by Bernard Macleod

Wives and analysts: or, how Winnicott became Winnicott by Neil Vickers

D. W. Winnicott and the capacity to marry well by Lindsay Wells

On Winnicott’s marriages: a response by Brett Kahr

– The couple, the self, and the problem of the other by Angela Joyce

– Re-visioning creativity in couple psychoanalysis: the importance of Winnicott and Bollas in clinical practice by David Hewison

– Should “sensate focus” have a place in couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy? by Susan Pacey

– Celebrating a Persian Winnicott by Mahyar Alinaghi

BOOK REVIEWS

Ruthless Winnicott: The Role of Ruthlessness in Psychoanalysis and Political Protest by Sally Swartz – Reviewed by Catriona Wrottesley

The Rough Patch. The Art of Living Together by Daphne de Marneffe – Reviewed by Christopher Clulow

ARTS REVIEWS

Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-Garde Barbican Art Gallery – Reviewed by Martha Doniach

The Height of the Storm by Florian Zeller, directed by Jonathan Kent – Reviewed by Laura Gibbons