Comment to Shimmerlik

The article examines Susan Shimmerlik's article on the implicit in couples and couples therapy, commenting on it from an analytical relational point of view, also in the light of the theory of complex systems. The focus is mainly on the clinical case, as an opportunity for comparison in the light of different clinical methods, in the belief that it helps the therapist to better explain the theoretical approach implicitly used. A more explicitly relational approach, even though it is now applauded in much of the most recent literature, must come to terms with the long tradition of individual psychoanalysis. And the couple can help the therapist to have a unified view of the two partners.