Couple Stories (ePub)

Aleksandra Novakovic is a Psychoanalyst and Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. She was a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the Adult Psychology Service, and Joint Head of the Inpatient & Community Psychology Service. She worked at Tavistock Relationships and taught and supervised Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training. She teaches for the British Psychoanalytic Association, and supervises on the Tavistock Foundation Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Course and on the IGA Diploma Course in Reflective Practice in Organizations. She co-edited with David Bell a book on psychotic processes (2013, Karnac), and edited Couple dynamics: psychoanalytic perspectives in work with the individual, the couple, and the group (2016, Karnac).

Marguerite Reid is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist who has more recently trained as a Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. She co-founded the Perinatal Service at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where she specialized in perinatal mental health problems. Her doctoral research was in the area of perinatal loss and the mother's experience when she gives birth to the next baby. She is a Visiting Clinician at Tavistock Relationships. She has taught in the UK and abroad and co-founded the Infant Observation course in Izmir, Turkey. She has published in the area of perinatal mental health, and now works in private practice in London.