COVER -- CONTENTS -- ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE -- PREFACE -- PROLOGUE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I COUPLES AND FAMILIES TODAY -- CHAPTER ONE The psychical reality of linking -- CHAPTER TWO Intersubjective links in the family: the function of identification -- CHAPTER THREE The mythic narrative neo-container in psychoanalytic family therapy: shame and treason as heritage -- CHAPTER FOUR Where is the unconscious located? Reflections on links in families and couples -- CHAPTER FIVE The frightened couple -- CHAPTER SIX Adoptive families: what pathways for subjectivisation? -- CHAPTER SEVEN Transformations through repetitions of female and male representations in reconstructed families -- PART II OEDIPUS IN THE NEW FAMILIES -- CHAPTER EIGHT The Oedipus complex and the new generations -- CHAPTER NINE When the fraternal prevails over the oedipal: a possible interpretative model for modern couples -- PART III CLINICAL WORK WITH FAMILIES AND COUPLES -- CHAPTER TEN Couples and the perverse link -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Couple and family psychoanalytic psychotherapy's contribution to current psychoanalysis -- CHAPTER TWELVE Fraternal incest: fraternal links -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Anamorphosis, sloughing of containers, and family psychical transformations -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Infidelity in the couple relationship: one form of relationship suffering -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN The other, the stranger, the unconscious: psychoanalysis and multi-ethnic therapeutic relationships -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN Old and new couple secrets: how to deal with them? -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Family myths and pathological links -- INDEX.