An Object Relations Approach to the Couple Relationship: Past, Present, and Future*

Psychoanalyst and a consultant couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist at Tavistock Relationships. She is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society. At Tavistock Relationships she is Head of the MA in Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She has a particular interest in the psychoanalytic understanding of couple relationships and the technique of couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy, about which she has published many papers and teaches in many countries. She is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association's Couple & Family Psychoanalysis Working Group, the Board of the International Association for Couple & Family Psychoanalysis, the International Advisory Board for Couple & Family Psychoanalysis, and the Italian journal Interazioni.