Éric Smadja is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (working with adults and couples) based in Paris, France. He is a member of the Société psychanalytique de Paris and of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is also the founder of a specific training in psychoanalysis with couples and an anthropologist. In 2007, he was awarded the IPA Prize for “Exceptional Contribution made to Psychoanalytical Research”.

• Series editor forewordIntroductionPart I: Couple workIntroduction: Recalling the concept of couple workChapter 1: Love, being in love, structural phases and psychic organisers of couples, and the work of the choice of conjugal object and its historicityChapter 2: Couple work on the intrapsychic-individual levelChapter 3: Couple work on the intersubjective level: Constitution of an inter-transferential neurosisChapter 4: Couple work on the groupal levelChapter 5: Couple work and temporalityPart II: Work with couplesSome introductory considerationsChapter 6: Suffering couples and the circumstances of consultationChapter 7: The preliminary interviews or the “encounter” with the coupleChapter 8: The work and its technical aspectsConcluding reflections and perspectives