Brief encounters with couples some analytic perspectives (Karnac, 2001)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-159) and index
First contacts : the therapist's "couple state of mind" as a factor in the containment of couples seen for consultations / Mary Morgan -- Thoughts about the couple relationship following the death of a child / Lynne Cudmore & Dorothy Judd -- Brief encounters : work with parents and infants in an under-fives' counselling services / Lisa Miller -- Brief work with parents and infants / Isca Wittenberg -- Giving advice during consultations : unconscious enactment of thoughtful containment? / Christopher Vincent -- Emotional contact and containment in psychosexual medicine / Ruth Skrine -- A psychoanalytic approach to brief marital psychotherapy / Monica Lanman & Francis Grier -- The court, the couple and the consultant : is there room for a third position? / Judith Freedman