Seven Deadly Sins Revisited

"Envy: the 'ordinary' envy in the consulting room"

"The title represents an attempt to delineate the area of attention: i.e., there will be a clinical focus, and an attempt to steer away from anything which is too grandly theoretical, instead to steer towards a discussion about the much more ordinary, everyday manifestations of envy as we experience them and try to deal with them in our professional work".

Francis Grier is a Training Analyst and Supervisor of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a Member of the Society of Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists. He edited Brief Encounters with Couples: Some Analytical Perspectives (2001, Karnac), and Oedipus and the Couple, (2005, Karnac) as part of the Tavistock Clinic Series, as well as several other papers, including, "Lively and deathly intercourse", in Sex, Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, ed. C. Clulow (2009, Karnac). His paper, "Thoughts on Rigoletto", was published in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis in 2011, and "La Traviata and Oedipus" in 2015. He has contributed chapters entitled "The hidden traumas of the young boarding school child as seen through the lens of adult couple therapy" for Enduring Trauma through the Life-Cycle ed. E. McGinley and A. Varchevker, and "Psychotic and depressive processes in couple functioning" for Living on the border, ed. D. Bell and A. Novakovic, both published by Karnac Books in 2013.