ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in this book. The book begins the exploration of many vertices of psychoanalytical thought about relationships between intimate partners and family members. Some of these depend on the psychoanalytical background of each community of psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, and some depend on more individual variation among practitioners—even when they share common theoretical and geographical points of view. Couple and family psychoanalysis is still in search of definition and development, both as an area of knowledge and as a distinct clinical approach within the psychoanalytic therapies. Its procedures are as different from those commonly applied to individual analysis as they are from those of the systemic family therapies, and because of this, their implementation explores a wider domain of important clinical challenges and research. The book explores how different analytic backgrounds and theoretical concepts from around the world are used in everyday clinical practice with families and couples.
