Dr Damian McCann, D.Sys.Psych., is a psychoanalytic couple psychotherapist working at Tavistock Relationships, London, an adjunct faculty member of the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI), Washington, DC, an associate of Queen Anne Street Practice, London, and an editorial board member of Couple & Family Psychoanalysis.
He is also a consultant systemic psychotherapist with many years of experience working with children, adolescents, and their families. He has a particular interest in working with gender and sexual diversity in psychoanalytic practice and has published and taught widely on this topic.
His doctoral research was concerned with understanding the meaning and impact of violence in the couple relationships of gay men, and he is involved in developing approaches to working with couples more generally in which there is violence and abuse. His edited book ‘Same-Sex Couples and Other Identities: Psychoanalytic Perspectives’ was published by Routledge in 2021, and he is the co-editor of Couples as Parents: Explorations in Couple Psychotherapy, to be published this year by Routledge.