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COUPLE AND FAMILY PSYCHOANALYSIS (2024) Vol 14 (2)

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CONTENTS

Editorial

•  Joanne Brown

 Articles

• The relational heart of couples psychotherapy: in conversation with Dr. Orna Guralnik
  Joanne Brown
• Psychoanalysis and homosexuality: the relevance of homophobia and shame for all sexualities
  Leezah Hertzmann
• The evolution of family creation via sperm donation: new perspectives on family and parenthood
  Lena Barth
• “You don’t need to be fixed”: working with a neurodiverse family.
  Ann Hardy
• Facing death: working with a couple facing Multiple Systems Atrophy
  Julia Segal
• Lost to self and other in a world of unseen things: reflections on Winnicott’s concept of the mirror role in working with narcissistic couples
  Ortal Kirson-Trilling
• Transference and countertransference in couples therapy
  Krisztina Glausius

 Book reviews

•  Illicit Monogamy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Community by William R.Jankowiak, reviewed by David E Scharff
• Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health edited by Ronald Britton and Aleksandra Novakovic, reviewed by Judith Pickering

Arts reviews 

• DIVA at the Victoria & Albert Museum: a joyous, bold, and juicy assault on the patriarchy, reviewed by Ann Hardy
• The (Un)threatening Third in The Blue Caftan (2022), directed by Maryam Touzani, and Past Lives (2023), directed by Celine Song, USA, reviewed by Stephanie Bushell

Notes on contributors

New Writer Prize

Forthcoming events

 Contents of related journals:

• The International Review of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 31, 2024(2) “Setting, transference, countertransference, and interpretation in couple and family psychoanalysis”; and 32, 2025(2): “Families faced with the illness of a loved one”
• L’Association française des centres de consultation conjugale
  Dialogue 243: “Time, family and couple”; et 244: “Radicalities and families”.