Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
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)
Couple Dynamics: Psychoanalytic Perspectives in Work with the Individual, the Couple, and the Group
This book presents psychoanalytic thinking about the phenomenon of the couple and couple dynamics in internal and external reality and at different levels of organisation: the ‘couple’ in the... (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)
Transforming Troubled Children, Teens, and Their Families: An Internal Family Systems Model for Healing
In Transforming Troubled Children, Teens, and Their Families: An Internal Family Systems Model for Healing, Dr Mones presents the first comprehensive application of the Internal Family Systems (IFS)... (more)
Talking with Couples: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Couple Relationship
‘In this compact and illuminating study of the evolving theoretical framework informing psychoanalytic work with couples, the authors highlight concepts that have been most drawn upon in developing... (more)
Internal Family Systems Therapy: New Dimensions
Internal family systems therapy, or IFS, is widely recognized as one of the most compassionate and comprehensive psychotherapies available. Its non-pathologizing approaches to behavior,... (more)
Family Therapy: Concepts Process and Practice: Third Edition
Now in its third edition, this highly regarded and well-established textbook includes up-to-date coverage of recent advances in family therapy practice and reviews of latest research, whilst... (more)
Sexual Awareness: Your Guide to Healthy Couple Sexuality: Fifth Edition
The new mantra in sex therapy includes desire, pleasure, eroticism, and satisfaction. In Sexual Awareness, veteran authors Barry and Emily McCarthy provide psychological, biological, and relational... (more)
Even If it Costs Me My Life: Systemic Constellations and Serious Illness
Family constellations work has broadened and developed in many different fields as a method of counseling and therapy. In addition to constellations in organizations and schools, applying this... (more)
Hold Me Tight: Your Guide to the Most Successful Approach to Building Loving Relationships
Developed by Dr Sue Johnson over 20 years ago and practised all over the world, Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) has been heralded by Time magazine and the New York Times as the couple... (more)
Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work
Working With Parents Makes Therapy Work demonstrates the crucial role of parent work in child and adolescent therapy. The Novicks suggest that restoring the parent-child relationship contributes to... (more)
How Couple Relationships Shape our World: Clinical Practice, Research, and Policy Perspectives
This book is about the importance of the couple relationship in the broadest terms. It draws on clinical researches into the inner lived world of adult couples, empirical developmental research into... (more)
Culture and Reflexivity in Systemic Psychotherapy: Mutual Perspectives
The therapeutic relationship is increasingly becoming a central topic in systemic psychotherapy and cross-cultural thinking. Here, experienced systemic psychotherapists offer their reflections and... (more)
The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder: New Tools and Techniques to Stop Walking on Eggshells
For family members of people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), home life is routinely unpredictable and frequently unbearable. Extreme mood swings, impulsive behaviors, unfair blaming and... (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)
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: How Couples Really Work
This book, written in plain language by an experienced, psychoanalytically-orientated therapist, is aimed at lay readers who wish to understand how couples consciously and unconsciously operate in... (more)
Mirrors and Reflections: Processes of Systemic Supervision
In this volume, as the title indicates, the focus is on understanding and elaborating what might be said to be "going on" in supervision as well as further exploring what is distinctive about... (more)
Sex, Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
The contributors to this book have drawn on different mentors to provide a framework for understanding the sexual problems of the couples they see, and to inform the work they do. But whether Freud,... (more)
Couple Attachments: Theoretical and Clinical Studies
The couple relationship is at the centre of this book. The complex nature of the couple attachment is emphasized, drawing both on psychoanalytic concepts and on attachment theory. The chapters aim to... (more)
What is This Thing Called Love? A Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Couples
A clear how-to guide for carrying out psychotherapy with couples from a psychoanalytic perspective. The book draws on both early and contemporary psychoanalytic knowledge, explaining how each theory... (more)
Dynamics of Romantic Love: Attachment, Caregiving, and Sex
A theoretically and empirically rich exploration of universal questions, this book examines the interplay of three distinct behavioural systems involved in romantic love. Leading attachment... (more)
Dialogical Meetings in Social Networks
This book describes and analyses two dialogic network practices: 'Open Dialogues' - developed for use in psychiatric crisis situations - and 'Anticipation Dialogues' - used in less acute situations... (more)
Oedipus and the Couple
This title consists of a diverse series of contributions and reflections on couples and the Oedipus complex from leading psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in the couples field. All contributors... (more)
The Importance of Fathers: A Psychoanalytic Re-Evaluation
It is widely acknowledged that children need structure, security, stability and attachment to develop and flourish. However, many changes have occurred in society which have changed the traditional... (more)
Brief Encounters with Couples
Deriving from a conference organised by the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute, the present volume draws the main focus of its inquiry from a few fundamental questions.
In its various brief... (more)
Adult Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy: The Secure Base in Practice and Research
Attachment theory has triggered an explosion of research into family relationships. This volume brings research and practice perspectives to bear on the adult couple relationship, and provides a... (more)
In Search of Good Form: Gestalt Therapy with Couples and Families
The author of this work emphasizes seeing and being with as keys to a phenomenological approach in which therapist and patient co-create and mutually articulate their own experiences and meanings. He... (more)