Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Couples, Families, and Social Change: Contemporary Clinical Approaches to Relational Life
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : March 2027
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 198
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 98665
- ISBN 13 : 9781041063759
- ISBN 10 : 104106375X
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Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Couples, Families, and Social Change explores the complex interplay between individual psychodynamics, couple and family relationships, and societal changes from a psychotherapeutic perspective.
Comprised of contemporary clinical research, this book examines how external and internal factors shape the family and couple dynamic and provides insight into therapeutic approaches. The chapters examine a variety of contemporary challenges, symptoms and difficulties that couples and families are faced with, including severe forms of social withdrawal, shifts in young adults’ romantic relationships, infertility and assisted reproduction, the onset of degenerative disorders, mourning and transgenerational trauma. Each chapter contributes to a richer understanding of how couple and familial links are affected by internal psychodynamics, societal shifts, and external stressors.
Offering valuable frameworks for supporting couples and families through times of change, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Couples, Families, and Social Change will be an essential resource for psychoanalytically informed mental health professionals.
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'Psychoanalytic psychotherapists from different European countries have contributed to this book, reflecting the scientific and clinical commitment of the EFPP, one of the most important international associations of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, to research and to the dissemination of psychoanalysis. Their contributions offer a rich and varied range of perspectives, all of them compelling, and engage with the social changes and traumas that have shaped—and often wounded—contemporary society and culture. The different chapters highlight the importance of extending the psychoanalytic method and explore ways of understanding, containing, and transforming mental suffering. Cristina Calarasanu, the main editor of this book, is one of the emerging figures on the international scene in this field, thanks to the intelligence and depth of her work.'
Anna Maria Nicolò, MD, child neuropsychiatrist, Training Analyst and Chair of the IPA Publications Committee; Full Member of the Società Psicoanalitica Italiana (SPI) and International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I – Psychoanalysis and Society: Understanding Change
1. Psychoanalytic community under catastrophic change
Taras Levin
2. The Glass Links: unconscious family functioning in front of chaotic times
Cristina Calarasanu
3. The need to belong, generation of conflict and feelings of failed dependency in current society
Athena Marouda-Chatjoulis
Part II – Couples and Families: Echoing the Change
4. Romantic relationships in young adults: changes and importance for clinical practice
Inge Seiffge-Krenke
5. A psychoanalytic exploration of mothers’ journey from childhood experiences to Attachment Parenting
Eleana Armao, Lida Anagnostaki
6. Reflections on infertility and assisted reproduction
Fiorella Monti, Piergiuseppina Fagandini
7. Projective identification and transgenerational transmission of family trauma
Aggeliki Passia
8. The lost father: mourning as a frozen experience of love and pain
Teresa Caratelli, Olivia Spinola
9. Alzheimer disease Effects on couples and families
Ayşe Özalkuş Şahin
Part III – Psychoanalytic Practices: New Clinical Settings
10. Different settings in the couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy
Daniela Lucarelli
11. Spreading out psychoanalytic early intervention with families and their infants/young children in crises-struck Greece
Effie Layiou-Lignos, Alexandra Alexandri, Lida Anagnostaki
12. Hikikomori parents: indirect psychotherapy for adolescents and young adults in social withdrawal
Fiorenzo Ranieri
13. New settings to welcome migrant families fleeing from war
Niccolò Gozzi
14. Dream, reverie and figurability
Pierre Benghozi
About the Editor(s)
Cristina Calarasanu is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist based in Romania. She is president of the Romanian Association for the Psychoanalysis of Group and Family Links, IACFP (International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis) General Secretary and Scientific Council Member, EFPP (European Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy) Board Member and Chair of the Couple and Family Section.
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Lida Anagnostaki, MSc, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychodynamic Perspectives in Developmental Psychology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and a child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Her work explores psychoanalysis, trauma, parenting, adoption and foster care, and the psychological impact of early parent–child separation.
Ayşe Özalkuş Şahin works with adults, elderly and Alzheimer patients and their caregivers as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She previously worked with children also and was a General Director at Turkish Alzheimer Association and was one of the founders of a branch office of Kadıköy Alzheimer Society in Istanbul. She is the Founder President of Istanbul Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association (IYPPD) in accrediation with EFPP and is President of the Training Committee at IYPPD. She is also a Turkish delegate, member of EFPP Book Series Editorial Committee and EFPP Training and Regulation Committees.
Veronika Garms is a psychoanalytic child and adolescent psychotherapist. She is a Full Member of the Società Italiana di Psicoterapia Psicoanalitica del Bambino, dell’Adolescente e della Coppia (SIPsIA), where she served as Scientific Director from 2023 to 2025. Since 2025, she is Chief Editor of the German psychoanalytic journal Kinderanalyse.For more than ten years, she has been a member of the editorial board of the Italian psychoanalytic journal Richard e Piggle. Studi psicoanalitici del bambino e dell’adolescente. She is responsible for a section featuring reviews and commentaries on articles published in international psychoanalytic journals.
Malby Oliver is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists a member of the EFPP E-Journal Editorial Team.
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