Series editor foreword
Introduction
Part I: Couple work
Introduction: Recalling the concept of couple work
Chapter 1: Love, being in love, structural phases and psychic organisers of couples, and the work of the choice of conjugal object and its historicity
Chapter 2: Couple work on the intrapsychic-individual level
Chapter 3: Couple work on the intersubjective level: Constitution of an inter-transferential neurosis
Chapter 4: Couple work on the groupal level
Chapter 5: Couple work and temporality
Part II: Work with couples
Some introductory considerations
Chapter 6: Suffering couples and the circumstances of consultation
Chapter 7: The preliminary interviews or the “encounter” with the couple
Chapter 8: The work and its technical aspects
Concluding reflections and perspectives
Biography
Éric Smadja is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (working with adults and couples) based in Paris, France. He is a member of the Société psychanalytique de Paris and of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is also the founder of a specific training in psychoanalysis with couples and an anthropologist. In 2007, he was awarded the IPA Prize for “Exceptional Contribution made to Psychoanalytical Research”.
