Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Contented Couples: Magic, Logic or Luck?
What is the secret of a long and contented marriage?
In Contented Couples, Anne Power interviews eighteen couples in the USA and the UK to discuss how they found each other and what made it... (more)
Couple Therapy: The Basics
Couple Therapy: The Basics provides a comprehensive introduction to couple therapy. Taking both a general overview and a psychoanalytic focus, it addresses the basic questions that both couples and... (more)
Couples as Parents: Explorations in Couple Therapy
Couples as Parents: Explorations in Couple Therapy explores the complex task of parenting from the perspective of the couple relationship.
A book for clinicians and parents alike, it describes... (more)
A Couple State of Mind: The Tavistock Relationships Model for the Psychoanalysis of Couples
This long-awaited book, aimed at an international audience of practitioners, students and teachers of psychoanalytic couple therapy, describes the Tavistock Relationships model of couple... (more)
The Heart of the Matter: Music and Art in Family Therapy
The Heart of the Matter invites therapists from all disciplines to consider the use of music and art in their work with families. It introduces systemic music and art ideas, giving clinical examples... (more)
Creativity in Times of Constraint: A Practitioner's Companion in Mental Health and Social Care
Contemporary practices in mental health (and social care) are increasingly characterized by approaches that overly simplify social, political, and psychological concerns. The persistence and ubiquity... (more)
Couple Therapy for Depression: A Clinician's Guide to Integrative Practice
Depression is second after heart disease as the most damaging health condition in the world. The NHS has devoted huge resources to training thousands of psychological therapists to work in 'Improving... (more)
Work Discussion: Learning from Reflective Practice in Work with Children and Families
'Work Discussion brings together a combination of close observation of, and personal and interpersonal responses to, the minutiae of the work setting and its dynamics, both internal and external.... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 14 Number 2
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)
Infidelity: A Practitioner’s Guide to Working with Couples in Crisis
This second edition brings together an impressive array of experts to discuss and provide understanding to the treatment of infidelity.
Bringing together voices from a range of disciplines and... (more)
Flourishing Love: A Secular Guide to Lasting Intimate Relationships
Flourishing Love is a secular defence of marriage and long-term intimate partnership. It rejects a moral–religious code to govern love lives and instead puts its faith in the human potential for... (more)
Mentalization-Based Treatment with Families
Examining clinical practice with families through a mentalizing lens, this innovative book is filled with practical therapeutic strategies and in-depth case illustrations. The expert authors focus on... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 9 Number 2
EDITORIAL
PERSONAL VIEW – Oedipus simplex: the British blind spot by Deborah Anna Luepnitz ARTICLES – The first Mrs Winnicott and the second Mrs Winnicott: does...
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High-Conflict Parenting Post-Separation: The Making and Breaking of Family Ties
High-Conflict Parenting Post-Separation: The Making and Breaking of Family Ties describes an innovative approach for families where children are caught up in their parents' acrimonious relationship -... (more)
Working with Attachment in Couples Therapy: A Four-Step Model for Clinical Practice
Through an exploration of extensive case studies, this book demonstrates how the discovery and examination of original childhood attachment wounds is crucial to couple therapy. As many as half of all... (more)
Internal Family Systems Therapy: Second Edition
Now significantly revised with over 70% new material, this is the authoritative presentation of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, which is taught and practiced around the world. IFS reveals how... (more)
The Heart of Couple Therapy: Knowing What to Do and How to Do It
Grounded in a deep understanding of what makes intimate relationships succeed, this book provides concrete guidelines for addressing the complexities of real-world clinical practice with couples.... (more)
The Complete Family Guide to Addiction: Everything You Need to Know Now to Help Your Loved One and Yourself
If you are struggling to help a loved one recover from addiction--and to cope with the devastating impact on the whole family--you are not alone. But until now, there has been no single book that... (more)
Interpretation in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
This collection of contemporary clinically-oriented papers covers a range of theoretical approaches to the fundamentally important technical issue of interpretation. It offers thought-provoking,... (more)
Bowen Theory's Secrets: Revealing the Hidden Life of Families
Murray Bowen (1913-1990) was the first to study the family in a live-in setting and describe specific details about how families function as systems. His theories dominated family therapy for... (more)
Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals Couples and Families
Drawing on cutting-edge research on adult attachment--and providing an innovative roadmap for clinical practice--Susan M. Johnson argues that psychotherapy is most effective when it focuses on the... (more)
Real and Imaginary Fathers: Development, Transference, and Healing
In this work, Salman Akhtar looks at how many fathers unconsciously, and sometimes quite consciously, attempt to revise their own traumatized childhood by providing their children with possibilities... (more)
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: Restoring Connection and Promoting Resilience
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy is the definitive manual for applying the effectiveness of emotionally focused therapy (EFT) to the complexities of family life.
The book sets out a... (more)
Couples on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy and the Tavistock Model
Couples on the Couch provides a clear guide to applying the Tavistock model of couple psychotherapy in clinical psychoanalytic practice, offering a compelling sampling of ideas about couple... (more)
Identity, Attachment and Resilience: Exploring Three Generations of a Polish Family
Identity, Attachment and Resilience provides a timely foray into the new field of psychology and genealogy, exploring the relationship between family history and identity. The field encompasses... (more)
Staying Attached: Fathers and Children in Troubled Times
This book is about the changing social contexts for fathering in the United Kingdom since the end of the Second World War, and the social moves from patriarchal fatherhood to multiple ways of doing... (more)
Working with Embodiment in Supervision: A Systemic Approach
Working with Embodiment in Supervision: A Systemic Approach offers a number of approaches to working with the body in therapy and counselling supervision. The authors are all experienced supervisors... (more)
10 Principles for Doing Effective Couples Therapy
Here, two of the world's leading couple therapists give readers an inside tour of what goes on inside the consulting rooms of their practice. They have been doing couples work for decades and still... (more)
Sex Addiction: The Partners' Perspective: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding and Surviving Sex Addiction for Partners and Those Who Want to Help Them
Sex and pornography addiction are growing problems that devastate the lives of partners as well as sufferers. Sex Addiction: A Partners' Perspective has been written to help partners and those who... (more)
The Good Divorce: A Psychoanalyst's Exploration of Separation, Divorce, and Childcare
Divorce is a complicated process and not a single event. It has major life implications and must be done right. In this regard, the good divorce is an ethical divorce.
The Good Divorce does not... (more)