Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
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)
LoveSex and Relationships: An Integrative Model for Sexual Education (2nd Edition)
LoveSex and Relationships introduces a pleasure-focused rather than reproductive model of sex, exploring how our brains, minds, bodies and emotions interact to create our experience of... (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)
Flourishing Love: A Secular Guide to Lasting Intimate Relationships
Flourishing Love is a secular defence of marriage and long-term intimate partnership. It rejects a moral–religious code to govern love lives and instead puts its faith in the human potential for... (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)
Love, Intimacy and Online Dating: How a Global Pandemic Redefined Romantic Relationships
Love, Intimacy and Online Dating: How a Global Pandemic Redefined Romantic Relationships is an innovative work that explores the concept of intimacy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The book provides an... (more)
Group Therapy for High-Conflict Divorce: A Workbook for the 'No Kids in the Middle' Intervention Programme
Group Therapy for High-Conflict Divorce: A Workbook for the 'No Kids in the Middle' Intervention Programme is an essential resource for reframing the divorce process to centre the child.
This... (more)
Systemic Perspectives in Mental Health, Social Work and Youth Care: A Relational Compass
Systemic Perspectives in Mental Health, Social Work and Youth Care describes the theoretical foundations of a systemic framework, or ‘systemic lens’, and how the counsellor, therapist, social worker... (more)
Single Session One at a Time Counselling with Couples: Challenge and Possibility
This book introduces One at a Time (OOAT) Single Session Therapy (SST) for couples, presenting a new and innovative format for couples counselling and therapy that fills the gaps between SST and... (more)
This is How Your Marriage Ends: A Hopeful Approach to Saving Relationships
One night during his divorce, after one too many vodkas and a phone-in-therapist's advice to 'journal his feelings,' Matthew Fray started a blog. As he tried to piece together how his ex-wife went... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 12 Number 2
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)
More About Couples on the Couch: Approaching Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy from an Expanded Perspective
Following the critically acclaimed Couples on the Couch, this volume offers further compelling ideas about couple psychotherapy from a psychoanalytic perspective.
The book well represents the... (more)
The Existential Importance of the Penis: A Guide to Understanding Male Sexuality
The first of its kind, this book applies existential principles to sexual problems, providing clinicians with the tools to understand male sexuality more deeply.
Alighting from the existential... (more)
From Trauma to Resiliency: Trauma-Informed Practices for Working with Children, Families, Schools, and Communities
From Trauma to Resiliency integrates research and practice of trauma-informed care, reviewing the neuroscience of trauma and highlighting relationship-based interventions for diverse populations that... (more)
Working Systemically with Refugee Couples and Families: Exploring Trauma, Resilience and Culture
This stirring and insightful book explores how family dynamics among refugees are affected by the trauma of forced migration.
Written by an experienced family therapist, it uses a systemic... (more)
Integrative Systemic Therapy in Practice: A Clinician's Handbook
This essential handbook provides clinicians with the tools to introduce Integrative Systemic Therapy (IST) into their practice working with individuals, couples, and families.
Describing the... (more)
A Grief Companion: Practical support and a guiding hand through the darkness of loss
'This is a book that takes you by the hand and promises the gentlest comfort in the darkest of times.' Tamsin Greig
A Grief Companion offers us practical help to use alongside the theory of... (more)
Bringing Common Factors to Life in Couple and Family Therapy
With the aim of renewing motivation, energy, and creativity in a therapists clinical work, this book explores how common factors may be utilized to increase effectiveness in couple and family... (more)
The Adopted Child Comes of Age
How do adoptions really turn out? How do adopted children feel about the family they were given and the opportunities they were offered? To what extent do they fulfil their new parents' expectations... (more)
Adoption of Non-White Children: The Experience of a British Adoption Project
Can adoptive homes be found for non-white children? Will the children and their new families be happy together though of different race? Will they feel like a family? Originally published in 1970,... (more)
Making Sense of Human Life: Murray Bowen’s Determined Effort Toward Family Systems Theory
Drawing from rich archival material, this book provides unprecedented access to the professional documents and historical context surrounding the life’s work of Dr. Murray Bowen (1913-1990), medical... (more)
Internal Family Systems Therapy: Supervision and Consultation
Internal Family Systems Therapy: Supervision and Consultation showcases the skills of Richard C. Schwartz and other leading IFS consultants and supervisors. Using unique case material, models, and... (more)
Ethical and Aesthetic Explorations of Systemic Practice: New Critical Reflections
In Ethical and Aesthetic Explorations of Systemic Practice, the four co-authors come together to rhizomatically consider how systemic theories can be reinvigorated in the present day.
This... (more)
Couples in Conflict: Clinical Techniques for Navigating Sexual and Relationship Control Struggles
In the first book of its kind, Dr. Stephen J. Betchen teaches established and training marriage and family therapists to recognize the complexity and contradictions of control struggles in couples... (more)
An Emotionally Focused Guide to Relationship Loss: Life After Love
By viewing romantic love as an attachment bond, Clare Rosoman incorporates emotionally focused therapy (EFT) and attachment theory to provide evidence-based tools in navigating close relationships... (more)
Narrating Estrangement: Autoethnographies of Writing Of(f) Family
The stories in Narrating Estrangement: Autoethnographies of Writing Of(f) Family demonstrate the pain, anguish, and even relief felt by those who contemplate estranging or who are estranged, whether... (more)
My Black Motherhood: Mental Health, Stigma, Racism and the System
Joyful. Graceful. Blessed. Strong. Anxious. Depressed. Stigmatised. Stereotyped.
What happens when motherhood isn't what you expected - and when you reach out for support, you are met with... (more)
Doing Family Therapy: Craft and Creativity in Clinical Practice: Fourth Edition
Engaging, practical, and infused with clinical wisdom, this widely used text and practitioner guide helps therapists working with families to hit the ground running. The revised and updated fourth... (more)