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Many books and papers have been written on the subject of interpretation, widely regarded among psychoanalytic practitioners as a principal (but not sole) agent of therapeutic change. The majority are from the perspective of individual psychotherapy and analysis. This volume, the 11th in the series ‘The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis’ (begun in ), is different because it specifically focuses on interpretation in couple and family psychoanalysis from a cross-cultural clinical perspective. Co-editors Timothy Keogh from Australia and Elizabeth Palacios from Spain have brought together contributions from clinicians from the UK, Italy, France, Spain, North America, South America and Australia in order to debate within its pages the question of what kinds of interpretation in couple and family work may be transformative. The discussions found here originally took place at a conference in Madrid in 2017; the aim of publishing these papers now is to make that gathering's discussions accessible to a far wider audience and to provide a spur for advances in theoretical ideas and clinical practice that can emerge from this kind of creative dialogue.
The book's structure as well as its content demonstrates the editors' belief in the value of including a plurality of voices within the international field of couple and family psychoanalysis across the globe. It is divided into three sections. Part 1 examines interpretation within the field of psychoanalysis and how that may be applied to couple and family psychoanalysis; Elizabeth Palacios (Europe), Mary Morgan (UK), David and Jill Scharff (North America), Janine Puget (South America), Timothy Keogh (Australasia); Part 2 looks at the different ways in which interpretation is applied in couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and each chapter has two discussants - again with a range of international contributors (from the UK, Australasia, Spain, Argentina, Israel, France and North America); Part 3 focuses on family work, i