ABSTRACT
A major and complex issue in clinical practice, which has relevance to the topic of interpretation, is the diversity of theoretical approaches and their respective challenges. Analysts engaged in dialogue with colleagues who have diverse frames of reference are recognising the importance of dialogue among a plurality of perspectives. A shift from an individual psychoanalysis to a link psychoanalysis perspective and the dialectical relationship between them has required a significant amount of research and development. This encompasses the continuing elaboration of psychoanalytic concepts that may be suitable and useful to approach the family and couple links. Family and couple link psychoanalysis, then, has probably become a most favourable site for debate concerning inter-subjectivity and on the construction of subjectivity, since links are primary depositories of current social malaise and individual symptoms of this malaise appear as ego syntonic with social values.
