Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 16 Number 1 – Special Issue: Couples as Parents in Families
Book Details
- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : April 2026
- Pages : 148
- Category :
Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy - Category 2 :
Journals & Periodicals - Catalogue No : 98680
Also by Damian McCann
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Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Reasons to subscribe:
– An established journal, listed by PEP, that brings together the interests of all professionals who work with couples and families and draw on a psychoanalytic perspective;
– An international journal, bringing together contributions from around the world;
– An innovative journal that critically reviews and discusses developments in practice, research, and literature, as well as providing lively and topical books and arts reviews;
– A professional journal with authoritative articles from established and new authors. First-time authors are especially encouraged with advice on preparing papers for publication;
– A welcoming journal offering a forum for those seeking a closer connection with others in their field.
Table of Contents
EDITORIAL
by Kate Thompson and Damian McCann
ARTICLES
– Solo motherhood: Desire, Loss, and the stories we inherit
by Martha Doniach
– Towards parenthood or childfree by choice?
by Jill Savege Scharff
– Mourning the imagined, meeting the living: Parents and transgender children
by Wayne Bodkin
– Looking for Merope: Some ways in which experiences of second mothers impact on couple relations
by Ann Hardy
– Dependence, interdependence, and alienation between parent and child following loss
by Corinne Masur
– Couples as parents, as offspring, and as family members: Finding an appropriate focus for therapy in the family maze
by Molly Ludlam
– Compassion-focused therapy with an adoptive couple: An attachment and trauma-informed approach
by Louis Sydney
ARTS REVIEW
– All of Us Strangers (2023) Directed by Andrew-Haigh
Reviewed by Sanna Aavaluoma
BOOK REVIEWS
– On Marriage by Devorah Baum
Reviewed by Molly Ludlam
– Love Songs: Listening to Couples by Perrine Moran
Reviewed by Krisztina Glausis
– Couples as Parents: Explorations in Couple Therapy Edited by Kate Thompson and Damian McCann
Reviewed by Victoria Walsh
About the Editor(s)
Kate Thompson is a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist and senior staff member at Tavistock Relationships with over 20 years’ experience of therapy with couples and individuals.
Damian McCann, D.Sys.Psych., is a psychoanalytic couple psychotherapist working at Tavistock Relationships, London, adjunct faculty member of the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) Washington, DC, an associate of Queen Anne Street Practice, London, and an editorial board member of Couple & Family Psychoanalysis.
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