Notes on Contributors

Susanna Abse is a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist and was CEO of TCCR 2006–2016. She serves on the Executive of the British Psychoanalytic Council and is a Fellow of the Centre for Social Policy, a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Research at Bath University, and a Member of the Society of Leadership Fellows at St George's House, Windsor. She is interested in the role that adult relationships play in children's outcomes and co-developed a mentalization-based intervention for parents in destructive conflict over parenting issues. She has published a range of practice papers and articles on couples and family policy, and lectures and teaches on related subjects. She is a member of the International Advisory Board for Couple and Family Psychoanalysis and a series editor for Karnac. In 2016, she co-founded the Balint Consultancy and has a private practice in London alongside consultancy in leadership development and family policy.

Christopher Clulow, PhD, is a consultant psychoanalytic couple psychotherapist, registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council and a Senior Fellow of Tavistock Relationships, London. He has published extensively on marriage, partnerships, parenthood, and couple psychotherapy, most recently from an attachment perspective. He is a Fellow of the Centre for Social Policy, Dartington, a member of the editorial board of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, and an international editorial consultant for Sexual and Relationship Therapy. He maintains a private clinical and training practice from his home in St Albans, UK.

David Hewison, D.Cpl.Psych.Psych., is a consultant couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist and Head of Research at Tavistock Relationships. He is the Programme Leader for the Professional Doctorate in Couple Psychotherapy. He co-wrote (with Christopher Clulow and Harriet Drake) Couple Therapy for Depression: A Clinician's Guide to Integrative Practice published by Oxford University Press expanding on the evidence-based couple ther