Notes on Contributors

Ella Bahaire is a couple psychotherapist at Tavistock Relationships and in private practice. Before training in psychotherapy, Ella produced and directed television documentaries.

Joanne Brown, PhD, is a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She is visiting clinician at Tavistock Relationships and works in private practice on the south coast of England. She taught and supervised for many years at the University of East London, the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, and the University of Southampton. She has published in the field of psychosocial studies on love and intimacy.

Norma Caruso is a clinical psychologist who treats individuals and couples in her private practice in Richmond, Virginia. She is an associate clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Virginia, and a faculty member at the International Psychotherapy Institute, a British Object Relations training programme, where she trained. She has lectured nationally and internationally on couple relationships, and the evaluation and treatment of sexual difficulties. Her publications on this topic have appeared in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, New Paradigms for Treating Relationships, and Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy. She is certified as a sexuality therapist by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists.

Sefi Hassin, MA, is a clinical social worker, family and couple psychoanalyst, and psychotherapist who works at the psychoanalytic day care unit for women suffering from complex trauma at the Ness Ziona Mental Health Hospital. She also works with individuals, couples, and families in private practice in Israel.

Ortal Kirson-Trilling, PsyD, is a psychoanalyst trained at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC). Dr Kirson-Trilling is the director of the intensive study programme for the Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group (PCPG) in the San Francisco Bay Area. She teach