Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
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)
A Family Systems Approach to Individual Therapy
An exploration of how systemic family therapy techniques can be integrated with individual therapy. It features numerous case examples and practical guidelines and ideas.
Counselling for Family Problems
The author places helping families in a traditional counselling framework and maintains that successful family counselling is a combination of several elements, including: working with the family's... (more)
The Transmission of Depression in Families and Children
Describes multiple family, individual and psychopharmacological therapeutic interventions on depression.
Narrative Therapy: The Social Construction of Preferred Realities
This work describes the clinical application of ideas and practices which has come to be known as 'narrative therapy'. It traces guiding metaphors of family therapy, and explains the basic ideas of... (more)
Object Relations Family Therapy
Aims to give individual psychotherapists a way of using dynamic listening and interpreting when working with couples and families, and offers family therapists the tools of psychoanalysis for... (more)
Object Relations Couple Therapy
In this landmark book, David Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff, both psychoanalysts, develop a way of thinking about and working with the couple as a small group of two, held together as a tightly knit... (more)
Cybernetics of Prejudices in the Practice of Psychotherapy
Two central ideas have become part of the orthodoxy of modern family therapy thinking. The first is that the therapist is part of the system he or she observes, and the second is that the therapist... (more)
Equal Partners, Good Friends: Empowering couples through therapy
This study examines the connection between inequality in marriage and marital distress, drawing on research and interviews. Focusing on issues of gender, sex roles and power, it provides a clinical... (more)
Art Therapy with Families in Crisis
This volume describes art therapy interventions for particularly dysfunctional families and explains the connections between the process of creating art and the curative process in meeting these... (more)
Handbook of relational diagnosis and dysfunctional relationship patterns
In this study, family clinicians and researchers present a typology of relational disorders. They examine the role of diagnosis in couples and family therapy, and offer clinical criteria for... (more)
Family Systems Therapy: Developments in the Milan-Systemic Therapies
This book gives an incisive and perceptive overview of the development of systemic therapies associated with the Milan approach. The author describes how, during the last decade, systemic therapies... (more)
New Language of Change
Showing how to build on client strengths, this book details a collaborative process in which the therapist and client co-construct meaning in the therapeutic conversation. 464 pages. (more)
Gender and Family Therapy
Burck and Daniel share the personal meaning that gender holds for them, and the open and enquiring, rather than definitive, style of their writing makes it easy for the reader to grasp their ideas.... (more)
Introducing User-friendly Family Therapy
So much family therapy is not user-friendly, it is disempowering and too technique-oriented. This thought-provoking work is practical in its emphasis and endeavours to show that family therapy can... (more)
Systemic Multi-Family Therapy: Concepts and Interventions
This book provides a pragmatic guide to multi-family therapy (MFT), as employed in a variety of different settings: health, social care and education.
Bringing six to eight families together to... (more)
The Mindful Path to Intimacy: Cultivating a Deeper Connection with Your Partner
Lots of couples are comfortable, but are they close? How often do you or your partner binge-watch TV alone at night, instead of cuddling on the couch? And what happened to those meaningful... (more)
Sex Therapy with Religious Patients: Working with Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Communities
Sex Therapy with Religious Patients is a comprehensive guidebook for mental health professionals who work with those struggling with sexual issues within a religious context. The book provides... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 14 Number 1 – Special Issue: Turning a Blind Eye: Sexual Violence in Couple and Family Relationships
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)
Deliberate Practice in Systemic Family Therapy
Deliberate practice exercises allow students and trainees to rehearse systemic family therapy (SFT) skills to develop basic competence and hone their own personal therapeutic style.
In these... (more)
Unravelling Trauma and Weaving Resilience with Systemic and Narrative Therapy: Playful Collaborations with Children, Families and Networks
Unravelling Trauma and Weaving Resilience with Systemic and Narrative Therapy is an innovative book that details how clinicians can engage children, families and their networks in creative and... (more)
Safety, Danger, and Protection in the Family and Community: A Systemic and Attachment-Informed Approach
This book provides an analysis of the meaning of safety and security across the contexts of community and public life, throughout the life span, and within a therapeutic framework, examining threats... (more)