Virginia Goldner’s Seminal Contributions to Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy

The faculties of The Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group, The Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, and The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. She is the director/producer of the film, Robert Wallerstein: 65 Years at the Center of Psychoanalysis and is on the international board of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. Her publications include, Infidelity as Manic Defence (2015), published in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, “45 Years: an essay on the film by Andrew Haigh, published in fort da (2018); “Whose Disgust is it Anyway?: Projection and Projective Identification in the Couple Relationship, in Psychoanalytic Dialogues (2016); and. “Oedipus for Everyone: Revitalizing the Model for LBGTQ Couples and Single Parent Families,’’ in Psychoanalytic Dialogues (2021). She is co-editor, with Milton Schaefer, of Couples on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy and the Tavistock Model (Routledge, 2017) and the editor of a second volume of collected papers about psychoanalytic couple psychotherapy entitled, More About Couples on the Couch: Approaching Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy from an Expanded Perspective (2022). Dr. Nathans is in private practice in Oakland, California.