Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Child-Focused Practice: A Collaborative Systemic Approach
The author, with over twenty years of experience of working with children, writes refreshingly about the practical aspects of his work. He takes traditional and contemporary theories and explains... (more)
My mother, my self
Nancy Friday shows that the key to a woman's character lies in her relationship with her mother - that first binding relationship which becomes the model for so much of a woman's adult relationships... (more)
Making and breaking families
This work looks at the many new combinations which constitute a family at the end of the 20th century. Men and women - whom the author interviewed - describe what happened when their marriage broke,... (more)
The New Family?
The transformation of family life in recent years - due to changes in employment patterns, shifting gender relations, and increased openness about sexual orientations - has increased concerns amongst... (more)
Romantic Jealousy
Based on 12 years of research on jealousy in romantic relationships, Dr. Pines offers real-life vignettes and practical advice to help readers assess their own jealousy quotient and to help them... (more)
Serious Mental Illness and the Family: The Practitioner's Guide
The serious mental illness of a close relative can be devastating to a family, who have to cope not only with the emotional impact of such an illness, but - in today's 'care in the community' society... (more)
From Impasse to Intimacy: How Understanding Unconscious Needs Can Transform Relationships
This text identifies the unconscious factors that influence the way people feel and behave in intimate relationships, covering the needs and fears that create and sustain dysfunctional patterns of... (more)
Men Who Batter Women
Considering both feminist approaches to male violence, and those perspectives which treat violent behaviour as psychologically pathological, the author explores how depth psychology can be used to... (more)
The Ancestor Syndrome
In this text the author explains and provides clinical examples of her psychogenealogical approach to psychotherapy. She shows how, as mere links in a chain of generations, we may have no choice in... (more)
Couple and family therapy of addiction
For the benefit of family therapists who wish to learn more about addiction, the author reviews its psychological, psychodynamic, biological, pharmacological and systemic concomitants. For those who... (more)
Case Studies in Couple and Family Therapy: Systemic and Cognitive Perspectives
This volume features case presentations by many of the most distinguished practitioners of couple and family therapy, bringing to life the full spectrum of contemporary approaches in the field.... (more)
Family Therapy in Changing Times
The new edition of this well-known text addresses the plurality of family life today, and considers the way in which the changeable 'theory of family' has influenced the approaches of those working... (more)
Family Therapy Techniques
A master of family therapy, Salvador Minuchin, traces for the first time the minute operations of day-to-day practice. Dr. Minuchin has achieved renown for his theoretical breakthroughs and his... (more)
Representations of Motherhood
Explores the maternal experience from the mother's point of view. The book questions a society that has devalued and sentimentalized motherhood, and presents images of generative and creative women... (more)
Counselling Couples
Individuals within a couple relationship are asked by their partner to fulfil a multitude of needs - for example, for companionship, security, intimacy - and are often expected to play a number of... (more)
Growing up in step-families
The growth of step-families has been one of the most dramatic changes in British family life in recent decades. Currently, more than one in twelve children live in a step-family. Using clinical... (more)
Bridging the Gap: A Training Module in Personal and Professional Development
This book opens a very important debate for the family therapy field. At a time of treatment rationing and standard setting, it aptly draws our attention to an issue of increasing importance:... (more)
Parallel Psychotherapy With Children and Parents
This text proposes a model for the parallel treatment of severely disturbed children and their mothers. This method mandates adjacent therapy by separate practitioners, with a common supervisor, who... (more)
Rethinking Marriage: Public and Private Perspectives
'This book brings together a group of specialists who attempt to describe the process of interaction between the inner and personal and the outer and social. They illustrate what is happening to... (more)