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Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy: Foundations of Theory and Practice is an edited book aimed at couple therapists interested in familiarizing themselves with a psychoanalytic approach to couple therapy. David E. Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff are well known for their many books that have expanded therapists' understanding of important though difficult-to-grasp concepts from the object relations school of thought, in particular; they have expounded on some concepts more pointedly—for example, projective identification—in separate books.1 They are well positioned to edit this compendium of articles designed to familiarize clinicians working with couples on the basic thinking and practice of analytic couple therapy.
Working closely with therapists from the Tavistock Center for Couple Relationships (TCCR), once called the Institute of Marital Studies (and where they themselves trained), the Scharffs weave in the thinking of the originators of psychodynamic couple therapy, Enid Balint and Henry Dicks among them, who were the first to write about couple therapy more than sixty-five years ago. The book also incorporates new understandings that are necessarily and easily integratable with psychoanalytic thinking and practice, such as affect regulation and attachment theory.
This book enters the scene at an important time in the field of couple therapy coinciding with the current zeitgeist of every answer seemingly appearing at our fingertips, without there being much space to let things unfold or for us to be informed and guided by feelings and sensations in considering issues, particularly in relationships. People are marrying at