British Society of Couple Psychotherapists and Counsellors

Formerly SCPP, the Society of Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists

This page lists some of the books and papers in print published by BSCPC members.

Couple Attachments

Edited by Molly Ludlam and Viveka Nyberg

The couple relationship is at the centre of this book. The complex nature of the couple attachment is emphasised, drawing both on psychoanalytic concepts and on attachment theory. The chapters aim to integrate theory with practice and can be seen, both separately and together, as offering new insights into the intricate web of psychic fantasies, shared unconscious anxieties and external realities that shape the attachment between the couple.

This book will be of great interest to all practitioners involved in couple work and can be used as a well-referenced teaching aid. It however has a much wider appeal and is to be recommended to anyone with a wish to further their appreciation of attachment as it manifests itself in the couple relationship.

Contributors:
Philip A. Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan, Molly Ludlam, Viveka Nyberg, James V. Fisher, Adrian Perkel, Elspeth Morley, Jody Leader, Barbara Bianchini, Fabio Monguzzi, Noela Byrne, Jenny Berg and Penny Jools, Christopher Vincent, David Scharff, Jill Savege Scharff, David Hewison, Gullvi Sandin, Anna Kandell, Rika van den Berg, Christopher Clulow, Una McCluskey, Timothy Keogh, Maria Kourt, Charles Enfield, Sylvia Enfield.

Available to buy on-line at Karnac book stores.

The Invisible Matrix

Edited by Sasha Brookes and Pauline Hodson

Contributors include: Elaine Bollinghaus, Sasha Brookes, Christel Buss-Twachtmann,Evelyn Cleavely, Mary Ann Dubner, Herbert Hahn, Pauline Hodson, Penny Jaques, Joyce Lowenstein, Jason Maratos, Susie Orbach, Stella Pierides, Philip Stokoe, Helen Tarsh.

Published in 2000 The Invisible Matrix continues to be helpful and relevant to all of us who share clients with another therapist.

"This is an original and disturbing book that will deservedly find its place on the reading list of all thoughtful therapists" - Jeremy Holmes.
"This volume contains some beautiful, concise and accessible summaries of key concepts" - Christopher Clulow.

Available to buy on-line at Karnac book stores.

Oedipus and the Couple

Edited by Francis Grier, published in the Tavistock Clinic Series.

This book draws on different perspectives and working contexts within the psychoanalytic field to explore various aspects of brief work with couples.

Available to buy on-line at Karnac book stores.

Brief Encounters with Couples - Some Analytical Perspectives

Edited by: Francis Grier

This book draws on different perspectives and working contexts within the psychoanalytic field to explore various aspects of brief work with couples.

Available to buy on-line at Karnac book stores.

Adult Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy - the 'Secure Base' in Practice and Research

Edited by Christopher Clulow, published by Brunner-Routledge

Divided into three parts, the book -

  1. Looks at what is meant by secure attachment in the couple
  2. Describes how research and practice inform one another
  3. Examines the significance of training and the organisation of work for effective practice with couples.

Available to buy on-line at Karnac book stores.


The Uninvited Guest - Emerging from Narcissism Towards Marriage

By James V. Fisher.

"A fascinating and imaginative book combining psychoanalytic theory and literature - in particular classic plays about marriage and married couples - to help couples therapists as they piece together their clients' histories and stories during the therapeutic process. A profound yet accessible guide of interest to clinicians and non-clinicians alike."

Available to buy on-line at Karnac book stores.

 

Additional Publications by BSCPC Members

Publications by Robert Morley

1975
Sleeping Beauty as a Marital Myth. Marriage Guidance March/April 1975(This piece was widely reported in the national press)
1984
The Concept of the Transitional Object. Journal of Social Work Practice
1984
Intimate Strangers: A discussion of the psychology of relationships and Marriage. The Family Welfare Association
1986
(with Elspeth Morley) Conjugal Dreams. Marriage Guidance Autumn 1986
1988
Letters to an Absent Patient, or The Continuation of Therapy by Other Means. Journal of The British Association of Psychotherapists No.19
1993
Two Fictional Marriages and their Relevance to Marriage in the Twentieth Century. Journal of The British Association of Psychotherapists No 25
1995
Two Marriages in Fiction In Men, Women & Marriage. Sheldon Press (A shorter version of the previous paper)
2000
The Self-blinding of Oedipus and the Theory of Repression. Psychoanalytic Studies V2 No2
2006
Couple Therapist Looks at the Wolf-Man. Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Couple Work, 2006
2007
The Analysand's Tale. Karnac Books Ltd ISBN-10: 85575-437-1

Additionally, in 1999 Robert wrote and presented a PhD thesis entitled Ways of Knowing: An examination of Freud's psychoanalytical theory as a language. The thesis was accepted by the City University in partnership with the Regents College School of Psychotherapy and Counselling.

Publications by Paul Pengelly

Woodhouse D and Pengelly P (1991)
Anxiety and the Dynamics of Collaboration. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press
Hughes L and Pengelly P (1994)
Who cares if the room is cold? Practicalities, projections and the trainer's authority. In Yelloly M and Henkel M (eds), Learning and Teaching in Social Work: Towards Reflective Practice. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pengelly P (1995)
Working with partners: counselling the couple and collaborating in the team. In Jennings S (ed), Infertility Counselling. Oxford: Blackwell Science
Pengelly P, Inglis M and Cudmore L (1996)
Infertility: couples' experiences and the use of counselling in treatment centres. Psychodynamic Counselling 1, 4, 507-524
Hughes L and Pengelly P (1997)
Staff Supervision in a Turbulent Environment: Managing Process and Task in Front-line Services. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pengelly P (1997)
In bed with Procrustes. Bulletin of the Society of Psychoanalytical Marital Psychotherapists 4, 9-13
Pengelly P (2001)
Il contratto inconscio nella psicoterapia breve. Rome: Psicoterapia Psicoanalitica 7, 2, 74-85

Publications by Viveka Nyberg and Molly Ludlam

Nyberg, V. (2005)
Shadows of the Parental Couple: oedipal themes in Bergman's Fanny and Alexander. In F. Grier (Ed), Oedipus and the Couple (pp. 101-120). London: Karnac.
Ludlam, M. & Nyberg, V.(Eds.)
Couple Attachments: Theoretical and Clinical Studies. London: Karnac.