Notes on Contributors

Susanna Abse is Chief Executive of TCCR. Before training as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, she worked with troubled adolescents. She is a Full Member of BSCPC and past Vice Chair. A former Programme Leader for the TCCR MA (Psychoanalytic Study of the Couple Relationship), she has published several practice papers on work with couples, and lectures and teaches on a wide range of related subjects.

Jenny Berg is a consultant child, adolescent, and family psychiatrist, and an adolescent, couple, and family psychotherapist. She teaches and supervises object relations couples and family therapy in both the public and private sectors. She is currently secretary of the Couple and Family Psychotherapy Association of Australasia.

Barbara Bianchini is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with individuals, couples, and groups. She is a Full Member of BSCPC, and a Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (IACFP). She is a Full Member of the Italian Association of Group Psychotherapy (APG), an Individual Member of the Confederation of Italian Organizations for Analytical Research into Groups (COIRAG), and a Founding Member and President of ARCIPELAGO, a Clinical Psychology Centre for Couples and Families in Milan. She teaches ‘Couple and Family Therapy’ at COIRAG postgraduate School of Psychotherapy (Milan). A former Honorary Counsellor of Milan Appeal Court (Minors and Family Section), she lives in Milan (Italy), working in private practice and, with Laura Dallanegra, as a consultant in the Family Therapy Centre of Milan Health Authority. She is co-author of publications on couple and family psychoanalysis.

Norma Caruso, PsyD, a clinical psychologist, treats couples and individuals in private practice in Richmond, Virginia. She is Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Virginia, and faculty member of the International Psychotherapy Institute, a British object relations trai