Carmel Flaskas is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Work, University of New South Wales, Sydney, where she convenes the Masters program in couple and family therapy. Her contributions in family therapy include her work on the therapeutic relationship, on the translation of psychoanalytic ideas in the systemic context of work, and on knowledge and postmodernist ideas in therapy. With Amaryll Perlesz, she edited "The Therapeutic Relationship in Systemic Therapy" (Karnac 1996).