Timothy Keogh is a training and supervising analyst and full member of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society. He is Honorary Senior Lecturer, Medical School, University of Sydney, and a research fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Society.

Cynthia Gregory-Roberts is an individual, couple and family psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Sydney, Australia. She is a member of the Australian Association of Social Workers and College of Social Work and an accredited Mental Health Social Worker.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Preface David Scharff

Introduction Timothy Keogh

SECTION I Theoretical understandings and clinical approaches to loss

Chapter One Timothy Keogh

Psychoanalytic understanding of loss and its relevance to couples and families

Chapter Two Elizabeth Palacios

Link Theory and Object Relations Theory: An enriched approach to working with melancholic couples

Chapter Three Cynthia Gregory-Roberts & Timothy Keogh

Assessing and formulating the significance of issues of unresolved loss in couples functioning

Chapter Four Timothy Keogh & Cynthia Gregory-Roberts

A proposed theoretical framework and model for intervention

Section II Loss in couples and families: Theory and practice

Chapter Five Anna Maria Nicolò & Stefania Tambone

Family defenses against mourning

Chapter Six Judith Pickering

Intergenerational loss in couples

Chapter Seven Catriona Wrottesley

Early loss of a parent and coupling difficulties

Chapter Eight Carl Bagnini

Loss of a pregnancy and its psychic impact

Chapter Nine Monica Vorchheimer

Loss in the everyday life of couples

Epilogue