Shelley Nathans, Ph.D. is on the faculty at California Pacific Medical Center, Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group, and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She has authored papers on infidelity and projective identification in couples, and is the director and producer of the film Robert Wallerstein: 65 Years at the Center of Psychoanalysis. She is in private practice in San Francisco and Oakland.

Milton Schaefer, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst in private practice in San Francisco. He is on the faculty at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis where he has taught Relational Theory and Couples Therapy and is a faculty member of the Psychoanalytic Couples Psychotherapy Group. He has presented and published on high conflict divorce, ethical issues, and psychoanalysis and art.

Preface

Chapter One Introduction: core concepts of the Tavistock couple psychotherapy model Shelley Nathans

Chapter Two Couples on the couch: working psychoanalytically with couple relationships Stanley Ruszczynski

Chapter Three Discussion of "Couples on the couch: working psychoanalytically with couple relationships" Rachel Cooke

Chapter Four Unconscious beliefs about being a couple Mary Morgan

Chapter Five Discussion of "Unconscious beliefs about being a couple": beliefs about a couple and beliefs about the other Milton Schaefer

Chapter Six The Macbeths in the consulting room James V. Fisher

Chapter Seven Discussion of "The Macbeths in the consulting room" Shelley Nathans

Chapter Eight Psychotic and depressive processes in couple functioning Francis Grier

Chapter Nine Discussion of "Psychotic and depressive processes in couple functioning" Julie Friend

Chapter Ten Romantic bonds, binds and ruptures: couples on the brink Virginia Goldner

Chapter Eleven Discussion of "Romantic bonds, binds and ruptures: couples on the brink" Rachael Peltz

Chapter Twelve How was it for you? Attachment, sexuality and mirroring in couple relationships Christopher Clulow

Chapter Thirteen Discussion of "How was it for you? Attachment, sexuality, and mirroring in couple relationships" Leora Benioff

Chapter Fourteen Growing old together in mind and body Andrew Balfour

Chapter Fifteen Discussion of "Growing old together in mind and body" Leslye Russell