REVIEW N° 33 | YEAR 2025 / 2
BOOK REVIEW
COUPLE AND FAMILY PSYCHOANALYSIS (2026) Vol 16 (1)
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CONTENTS
Special Issue Couples as Parents in Families
Editorial
- Kate Thompson and Damian McCann
Articles
- Solo Motherhood: Desire, Loss and the Stories We Inherit
Martha Doniach - Towards Parenthood or Child Free by Choice?
Jill Scharff - Mourning the Imagined, Meeting the Living: Parents and Transgender Children
Wayne Bodkin - Looking for Merope: some ways in which experiences of second mothers impact on couple relationships
Ann Hardy - Dependence, Interdependence and Alienation Between Parent and Child Following Loss
Corinne Masur - Couples as parents, as offspring, and as family members: finding an appropriate focus for therapy in the family maze
Molly Ludlam - Compassion Focussed Therapy with an adoptive couple: An attachment and trauma informed approach
Louis Sydney
Arts review
- All of Us Strangers, reviewed
by Sanna Aavaluoma
Book reviews
- Love Songs: Listening to Couples, reviewed
by Krisztina Glausius - On Marriage, reviewed
by Devorah Baum - Couples as Parents: Explorations in Couple Therapy, reviewed
by V Walsh
Backmatter:
- Notes on contributors
- New Writer Prize 2025 Forthcoming events
- Contents:
- The International Review of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis 33 Dialogue 249 and 250
- Instructions to contributors
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