Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Child Abuse, Psychotherapy and the Law: Bearing the Unbearable
Those working with families in the field of child abuse often find themselves becoming intimately involved with family law. A legal framework can aid those working in the field, and a... (more)
Social Interaction and Personal Relationships
Part of the series "Social Psychology: Personal Lives, Social Worlds". (more)
Intrusiveness and Intimacy in the Couple
A collection of papers, largely based on clinical work, which covers a range of concepts and mechanisms which are central to any psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children, adolescents, or adults. It... (more)
Mothering and ambivalence
This text brings together authors from therapeutic, academic and social work backgrounds to discuss dependency, anxiety and gender relations within families. Drawing on professional experience the... (more)
Family therapy sourcebook
450 pages.
Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends
This book presents a respectful, often playful approach to serious problems, with ground-breaking theory as a backdrop. The authors start with the assumption that people experience problems when the... (more)
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)
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)
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)