COUPLE AND FAMILY PSYCHOANALYSIS (2026) Vol 16-2

COUPLE AND FAMILY PSYCHOANALYSIS (2026) Vol 16 (2)

Les membres de l’AICFP bénéficient d’une réduction exclusive de 30% sur le prix d’achat despublications papier et numérique du numéro, ainsi que sur le tarif d’abonnement individuel à la revue. Pour acheter, rendez-vous sur www.firingthemind.com, cliquer sur “checkout” et saisissez le code ducoupon: IACFP20.

SOMMAIRE

Editorial 

James Poulton, Lorna Robinson and Kate Thompson 

Articles  

Love is where we start from: An examination of Winnicott’s ‘use of an object’ as it relates to mature love in the couple relationship  Ortal Kirson-Trilling 

“Couple superego deadlock”: A destructive and anti-growth form of couple relating  Catriona Wrottesley 

Phallic omnipotence and the dread of need: Men’s vulnerability in intimate partnerships

Susanna Abse 

Response to ‘Phallic omnipotence and the dread of need: Men’s vulnerability in intimate partnerships’  Simon Creegen 

The contribution of the concept of a shared object in understanding how couples and families experience illness

Christoper Vincent and Wayne Bodkin in collaboration with Federica De Angelis and Julia Segal 

Israel as internal object and Israel/Palestine as internal couple: Inheritance of longing, conflict, and love

Vivian Eskin 

The last gasp: Couples’ mourning of shared unconscious phantasy in their long-term couple psychotherapy  Robert Monzo 

A psychoanalytic perspective on the cycle of violence: Unconscious communication in intimate partner violence throughout the three stages of the cycle  Anastasia Galaktidou 

Notes de lecture

Arts 

Notes sur les contributeurs 

New Writer Prize 2026 

Prochains événements

Sommaires de la Revue de l’association internationale psychanalytique de coule et de famille et de Dialogue

Instructions aux contributeurs 

James Poulton

Kate Thompson

Lorna Robinson

Editors in Chief

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis

email: cfpeditor@tavistockrelationships.ac.uk