Instructors
Vivian Eskin, Ph.D.
Vivian Eskin, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst (Adult) at the Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS) and a graduate of the CFS/IPTAR Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program, N.Y. N.Y. She holds a Qualifying Diploma in Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from Tavistock Relationships, London, UK. Dr. Eskin is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, NASW (National Association for Social Work), APA (American Psychological Association), CIPS (Confederation of Psychoanalytic Societies) and the British Society for Couple Psychotherapists. She teaches at various training institutes and graduate programs in New York City, provides Clinical Supervision and has an active private practice in individual and couple psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. She is a member of the teaching faculty of the Contemporary Freudian Society and the Contemporary Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Program of New York.
Below, please find a selection of Dr. Eskin’s published works.
Prof. Rachel Blass
Rachel B. Blass is a member and Training Analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society, a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and formerly a professor of psychoanalysis in leading universities both in the UK and in Israel. She is also on the Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis where she is the editor of the Controversies section. She has published a book and over 80 articles which elucidate the foundations of psychoanalysis and their role in contemporary analytic thinking and practice, offer close readings of Freud’s texts and the evolution of his ideas, and clarify how Kleinian psychoanalysis grounds and advances these ideas. In recent years a special focus of her writing and teaching has been on making what is unique to London Kleinian thinking and practice more accessible to analysts from other traditions. She has lectured, taught and offered clinical seminars in many countries and her writings have been translated into 15 languages.
Mary Morgan
Mary Morgan is a Psychoanalyst and Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, Senior Fellow of Tavistock Relationships and Honorary Member of the Polish Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
She worked for more than 30 years at Tavistock Relationships, London, where she was the Reader in Couple Psychoanalysis and Head of the MA and Professional Doctorate in Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
She has published more than 40 articles in field of couple psychoanalysis and developed concepts such as ‘a couple state of mind’, ‘the creative couple’, ‘unconscious beliefs about being a couple’ and ‘a projective gridlock’. She edited with Andrew Balfour and Christopher Vincent ‘How Couple Relationships Shape our World, published in 2012. In 2019, her book: ‘A Couple State of Mind: Psychoanalysis of Couples – the Tavistock Relationships Model’ was published by Routledge. It describes both the theoretical and clinical approach of Tavistock Relationships developed over the last 70 years and her own conceptual thinking and technique. It is now available in English, Polish, Italian, Russian and Chinese.
She has taken a leading role in disseminating the Tavistock Relationships Model internationally through writing, supervision, participating in conferences and teaching in many parts of the world. She has been part of setting up and/or teaching on courses and trainings in Sweden, Finland San Francisco, New York, and Poland. She is on the advisory boards of several scientific journals including the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Couple and Family Psychoanalysis and Interazioni.
She is consultant to the IPA Committee on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (COFAP). She currently works in private practice in London, UK.
Stephen Seligman, PhD.
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Prof. Stanley Ruszczynski
Stanley Ruszczynski is a psychoanalyst and psychoanalytic couple psychotherapist, and teacher, in private practice.
Between 1997 and 2021, he was a Consultant Adult Psychotherapist at the Portman Clinic, part of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust (including holding the role of Clinic Director, 2005-2016). The Portman Clinic offers psychotherapeutic treatment to patients disturbed by their criminality, violence or damaging sexual behaviours. Between 1979 and 1997, he was a senior member of staff at Tavistock Relationships (including holding the roles of Deputy Director, 1987-1993). He has taught extensively in the UK and abroad and over the last ten years, together with Mary Morgan, has established the practice of psychoanalytic couple psychotherapy in Poland, for which they have been awarded Honorary Membership of the Polish Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
He has authored many book chapters and journal articles, and is a contributory editor and co-editor of five books, including Psychotherapy with Couples (Karnac Books, 1993), Intrusiveness and Intimacy in the Couple (Karnac Books, 1995) co-edited with James Fisher, and Lectures on Violence, Perversion and Delinquency (Karnac Books, 2007), co-edited with David Morgan.