Acknowledgements; About the editors and contributors; Series editor's foreword, Christopher Clulow; Editor's Preface, Timothy Keogh and Elizabeth Palacios; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1: Approaches to interpretation with couples and families; Introduction, Timothy Keogh and Elizabeth Palacios; European perspective, Elizabeth Palacios; British perspective, Mary Morgan; North American perspective, David E. Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff; South American perspective, Janine Puget; Australasian perspective, Timothy Keogh; Part II: Interpretation in couple psychoanalysis; Chapter 2: Complex and creative: the field of couple interpretation, Mary Morgan; Discussant perspective: Hanni Mann-Shalvi; Discussant perspective: Roberta Gorischnik; Chapter 3: The role of interpretation in the assessment phase of couple psychoanalysis, Timothy Keogh and Cynthia Gregory-Roberts; Discussant perspective: Damian McCann; Discussant perspective: Alicia Leisse de Lustgartgen; Chapter 4: Demand analysis: the treatment of the couple, Pedro Gil Corbacho and Carmen Monedero Mateo; Discussant perspective: Rosa Jaitin; Chapter 5: Therapeutic intervention in psychoanalytical clinical work with couples, Miguel Alejo Spivacow; Part III Interpretation in family psychoanalysis; Chapter 6: Interpretation in family analysis, Anna Maria Nicolò and Diana Norsa; Discussant perspective: Carl Bagnini; Discussant perspective: Janine Puget; Chapter 7: Links to the past and to wider social issues in a family assessment, David E. Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff; Discussant perspective: Anastasia Tsamparli; Chapter 8: Interpretation and family psychoanalysis, Mónica Vorchheimer; Discussant perspective: Pilar Puertas Tejedor; Discussant perspective: Jeanne Magagna; Chapter 9: Crossroads in contemporary family clinical practice, Alicia Monserrat Femenia and Elizabeth Palacios; Discussant perspective: Carles Pérez Testor; Discussant perspective: Caroline Sehon; Chapter 10: Fighting the darkness: a family in mourning, Janine Wanlass; Discussant perspective: Susana Muszkat; Discussant perspective: Daniela Lucarelli; Chapter 11: The mess monster: family therapy in the context of the arrival of the newborn brother, Antonia Llairó; Discussant perspective: Sonia Kleinman; Discussant perspective: Juan González Rojas; Chapter 12: The mystery, the turbulence and the passion of infantile phantasy in the couple: whose pain is it - a shared internal world of unmourned objects, Karen Proner; Discussant perspective: Amita Sehgal; Discussant perspective: Anna Romagosa Huguet; Chapter 13: Reflections on interpretation in contemporary clinical practice with family and couple links, Lia Cypel; Discussant perspective: Barbara Bianchini; Epilogue, Timothy Keogh and Elizabeth Palacios