Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Divorce as Family Transition: When Private Sorrow Becomes A Public Matter
Based on the 1996 Family Law Act, this book looks at how the therapist can work with the different professions involved in a divorce, how children might be consulted, and ways in which vulnerable... (more)
The Therapeutic Relationship in Systemic Therapy
Brings the issue of the therapeutic relationship in family systems therapy into focus, by examing the relationships between the client family as a system, and the use of self in therapy.
Interacting Stories: Narratives, Family Beliefs and Therapy
A critical reflection on the ideas that have shaped systemic and family therapy over the last years, focusing particularly on the role of narratives within families. The author illustrates his work... (more)
Problem-Solving Therapy
A classic that teaches you how to think in a contextually sensitive, directive, and goal-focused way. A highly readable and practical volume that focuses on solving problems within the context of the... (more)
Leaving Home: The Therapy of Disturbed Young People
Leaving Home presents a method of family therapy at the stage when children are leaving home. It includes a special classification of young people with problems, and tackles family orientation, the... (more)
Women in Families: A Framework for Family Therapy
This comprehensive book, ideal as a basic text in family therapy and women's studies, addresses the question of how women experience family life from a variety of perspectives. It covers gender... (more)
Mastering Family Therapy: Journeys of Growth and Transformation
This work offers views on what makes a good family therapist and discusses how the therapist must use his or her own personal experience to bring about change in troubled families. It includes... (more)
Handing Over: Developing Consistency Across Shifts in Residential and Health Settings
This book introduces a new way of conducting a handover which allows the workers themselves to see the process from a wider perspective and to gather information in a different way. The major change... (more)
Teaching Systemic Thinking
Therapists recognise that the practice of systemic family therapy is as much about the way one thinks as it is about what one does, and this book was the first in this field to address specific ways... (more)
Second Thoughts on the Theory and Practice of the Milan Approach to Family Therapy
Second Thoughts on the Theory and Practice of the Milan Approach to Family Therapy is a full discussion of the way the original techniques of the Milan Approach have been affected by current thinking... (more)
Irreverence: A Strategy for Therapists' Survival
Irreverence: A strategy for Therapists' Survival marks the end result of a collaboration between the creative and highly respected therapists and writers in the family therapy field. It continues... (more)
Trauma-Organized Systems: Physical and Sexual Abuse in Families
This book is about the experience of individuals who have been abused or who have abused others, but it also traces the way an abusive experience can organize a family or professional system so that... (more)
Paradox and Counterparadox: A New Model in the Therapy of the Family in Schizophrenic Transaction
This work presents a new model in the therapy of the family in schizophrenic transaction. 189 pages. (more)
Rewriting Family Scripts
Families can develop self-destructive routines that are so predictable that members seem to be following a script. Such scripts can be altered when families in therapy learn how to improvise new... (more)
A stranger in the family: Culture, families and therapy
Provides a model of family therapy for working with families across cultures. Drawing together emerging trends in therapy and the human sciences, the author offers an understanding of the situated... (more)
Playful Approaches to Serious Problems: Narrative Therapy with Children and Their Families
Describes a basic theory of collaborative narrative play, as well as verbal and nonverbal techniques which can lead to stories of hope, possibility and change. The author provides case examples which... (more)
Countertransference in Couples Therapy
Uses cases to highlight therapists' reactions to couples' problems. The book examines not only classic countertransference issues, but also the ramifications of the therapist's values and... (more)
Countertransference in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
This collection of papers from psychoanalysts across Europe is intended to highlight the similarites and differences between approaches to working with children and adolescents. Part of the EFPP... (more)
The Illusion of Love: Why the Battered Woman Returns to her Abuser
Why do many men assault the woman they love, and why do battered women return for more abuse? This text examines the basic attraction between abuser and victim which results in disorders and... (more)
Couple burnout: Causes and cures
Drawing on years of clinical research, Ayala Pines offers a conceptual framework for understanding and combating couple burnout. Using case studies, Pines provides effective strategies for therapists... (more)
A Guide for the Family
A primer for mental health professionals who work with families. It recognises and borrows from the work of well-known and skilled family therapists to offer a practical approach to dealing with... (more)
Family Systems Thinking
This work begins with the early origins of family therapy. It introduces the field of systems theory; describes and demonstrates four approaches to family therapy; presents the author's own... (more)
Marriage Contracts and Couple Therapy
Emphasises the role of 'the individual unwritten contract', which encompasses the expectations and promises - both conscious and unconscious - that each partner brings to a marriage or committed... (more)
A Marital Therapy Manual
Presents the basic principles and working techniques of marital therapy, including analyses of the four most commonly observed pathological marriage patterns. From these the author sketches the... (more)
Helping Families to Change
Discussing learning to change through modalities other than speech, this work emphasises the importance of non-verbal body experience, and of awareness of kinetic cues in interpersonal relationships.... (more)
Family Therapy with Couples
Outlines ways to use the parental unit as a major force for change in families. Topics covered include: understanding relationship problems systematically; the first interview; rethinking the family... (more)