Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
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)
Love Songs: Listening to Couples
Perrine Moran considers the power of popular love songs to trigger emotion and capture what is at the heart of couple dynamics. In songs, music and words – the non-verbal and verbal – combine to... (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)
We Are Family
An insight into new ways of becoming a parent by a world-leading expert.
Families come in all shapes and sizes: from the nuclear two-parent two-child unit to gay families, trans families,... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 13 Number 1 – Special Issue: Private lives in a global storm
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)
Marriage and the Culture of Peace: Communication Skills for Families, Therapists, and Society
This book provides skills for therapists and families to help improve interpersonal communication, promoting a new system of family coexistence and a refreshed concept of the modern marriage in... (more)
Compassion for Couples: Building the Skills of Loving Connection
How resilient is your relationship? Do you and your partner go into "reactivity mode" when a conflict arises? Do you wish you were closer and more connected? We all need healthy, secure relationships... (more)
The AutPlay® Therapy Handbook: Integrative Family Play Therapy with Neurodivergent Children
The AutPlay® Therapy Handbook provides a thorough explanation and understanding of AutPlay® Therapy (an integrative family play therapy framework) and details how to effectively implement AutPlay®... (more)