Developmental Couple Therapy for Complex Trauma Survivors: A Detailed Case Study of a Manualized, Time-Limited, Psychoanalytically Informed Treatment

Clinical psychologist, associate professor and Director of the MScA in Couple and Family Therapy Programme at McGill University, where she is the recipient of the H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching. She is a graduate of the Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology in Toronto, Ontario and was an Early Career Scholar of the American Psychological Association Division 39. She is currently guest faculty and Adjunct Clinical Consultant of the Certificate program in Integrative Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy co-sponsored by the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and the Institute for Clinical Social Work and a Senior Research Fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association Research Fellowship. Dr. MacIntosh is the author of the recently published book, Developmental Couple Therapy for Complex Trauma: A Manual for Therapists, which brings psychoanalytic developmental concepts into an evidence-based model for working with couples dealing with the multiple impacts of complex trauma with an intersectional and anti-oppressive lens. Dr. Macintosh leads an active research programme funded by federal and provincial research funds where she examines the impact of early life trauma on the process and outcome of couple therapy and the development and maintenance of healthy adult relationships. She is the author of numerous peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters in the field. She is currently principal investigator for a Government of Quebec funded programme providing Developmental Couple Therapy for Complex Trauma in a virtual group couple format for trauma survivors in the context of the Covid–19 pandemic.