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BRIEF ENCOUNTERS WITH COUPLES SOME ANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVES E D I T ED BY F R A N C IS G R I ER TAVISTOCK MARITAL STUDIES INSTITUTE BRIEF ENCOUNTERS WITH COUPLES 1 BRIEF ENCOUNTERS WITH COUPLES Some Analytic Perspectives Edited by Francis Crier Foreword by Stanley Ruszczynski K A R N AC LONDON NEW YORK First published in 2001 by H. Karnac (Books) Ltd, 118 Finchley Road, London NW3 5HT A subsidiary of Other Press LLC, New York Arrangement and Introduction copyright © 2001 Francis Grier; Foreword copyright © 2001 Stanley Ruszczynski; Chapter 1 copyright © 2001 Mary Morgan; Chapter 2 copyright © 2001 Lynne Cudmore & Dorothy Judd; Chapter 3 copyright © 2001 Lisa Miller; Chapter 4 copyright © 2001 Isca Wittenberg; Chapter 5 copyright © 2001 Christopher Vincent; Chapter 6 copyright © 2001 Ruth Skrine; Chapter 7 copyright © 2001 Monica Lanman & Francis Grier; Chapter 8 copyright © 2001 Judith Freedman The rights of contributors to be identified as the authors of this work have been asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CLP. for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978 1 85575 276 4 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 21 1 Edited, designed, and produced by Communication Crafts www.karnacbooks.com • Printed & bound by Antony Rowe Ltd, Eastbourne CONTENTS ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS FOREWORD Stanley Ruszczynski Introduction 1 First contacts: the therapist's "couple state of mind as a factor in the containment of couples seen for consultations Mary Morgan 2 Thoughts about the couple relationship following the death of a child Lynne Cudmore & Dorothy Judd 3 Brief encounters: work with parents and infants in an under-fives' counselling service Lisa Miller Vi CONTENTS 4 Brief work with parents of infants Isca Wittenberg 69 5 Giving advice during consultations: unconscious enactment or thoughtful containment? Christopher Vincent 85 6 Emotional contact and containment in psychosexual medicine Ruth Skrine 99 7 A psychoanalytic approach to brief marital psychotherapy Monica Lanman & Francis Grier 113 8 The court, the couple, and the consultant: is there room for a third position? Judith Freedman 135 REFERENCES 155 INDEX 161 ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS Lynne Cudmore, originally qualified as a social worker and worked for seven years in an inner city Social Services department. She has worked at the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute since 1978, where she is a Senior Marital Psychotherapist and Lecturer in Marital Studies and Organising Tutor for the Clinical Training. Her research interests include the impact of infertility on the couple relationship and the impact of child death on the parental partner ship. She is a full member of the Society of Psychoanalytical Marital Psychotherapists and is currently training to be a child psycho therapist at the Tavistock Clinic. Judith Freedman is Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at the Portman Clinic. She is also a Member of the Boston Psycho analytic Society. Dr Freedman has a long-standing interest in psy choanalytically-informed work with couples and families, and in recent years she has used this perspective to prepare reports for the Family Courts. Francis Grier is a psychoanalyst and a Senior Marital Psychothera pist at the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute, where he is currently vii viii ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS working with Monica Lanman on a research project, exploring measures of process and outcome in psychoanalytic marital psy chotherapy. Dorothy Judd, PhD, is a past member of staff of the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute. After teaching art, she trained and worked as an art therapist, and then as a child psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic. While working for sixteen years in child guid ance clinics and teaching hospitals, she specialized in working with children facing life-threatening illness, and with their families and medical staff. Most of her publications are on this subject, includ ing Give Sorrow Words: Working with a Dying Child (1989), and a co edited book, The Imaginative Body: Psychodynamic Therapy in Health Care (1994), She currently teaches infant observation, works at Uni versity College School, and has a private practice. Monica Lanman first trained and worked as a social worker, then qualified at the Tavistock Clinic as an individual psychoanalytic psychotherapist. After some years of working privately, she took a part-time post in student counselling. Since 1995, while maintain ing a private individual practice, she has worked part-time at the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute where she is a Senior Marital Psychotherapist and Clinical Lecturer. She is the Co-ordinator of TMSI's Clinical Service, and, with Francis Grier, is researching measures of outcome and process in psychoanalytic marital psy chotherapy. Lisa Miller is a Consultant Child Psychotherapist and the Chair of the Child & Family Department at the Tavistock Clinic. She is the Senior Tutor in the Child Psychotherapy Training at the Clinic, and was previously the Organiser of the Under Fives' Service there. She is Editor of the International Journal of Infant Observation. Mary Morgan is a Senior Marital Psychotherapist and Clinical Lecturer at the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute where she has worked for thirteen years. She is interested in the theory and tech nique of couple psychotherapy and has set up trainings in couple psychotherapy in Sweden and the United States. She has a private practice and is currently training as a psychoanalyst. ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS *IX Stanley Ruszczynski is a Principal Adult Psychotherapist at the Portman Clinic (Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust) and has a private practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. He is a Full Member of the British Association of Psychotherapists and of the Society of Psychoanalytic Marital Psychotherapists, and is past Deputy Director of the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute. He is the joint editor of the Journal of the British Association of Psychothera pists. He has edited and co-edited four books and is the author of a number of book chapters and journal papers on psychoanalytic psychotherapy with individuals and with couples. He has taught and lectured extensively. Ruth Skrine is a retired general practitioner and has had a special interest in psychosexual medicine for many years. She has been Chairman of the Institute of Psychosexual Medicine, and has led seminars which train doctors to work in a psychodynamic way with the body and mind together. She has edited a series of books on the subject, and is the author of one, Blocks and Freedoms in Sexual Life (1997). Christopher Vincent is a senior marital psychotherapist and clini cal lecturer in marital studies at the Tavistock Marital Studies Insti tute, where he coordinates the Institute's research and publications activities. His clinical and research interests have focused on work with individuals and couples who are separating or divorcing, and he is currently part of a research team looking at the relationship between attachment patterns and couples' conflict management tactics. He is an Associate member of the British Association of Psychotherapists and a Full Member of the Society of Psychoana lytical Marital Psychotherapists. Isca Wittenberg is a Consultant Psychotherapist. She was for nearly 30 years on the staff of the Tavistock Clinic and is still an honorary staff member and teaches at the Clinic. She is in private practice, working with children and adults, and she teaches in many countries. Among her publications are two books, Psychoana lytic Insight and Relationships (1970) and The Emotional Experience of Learning and Teaching (1983).
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