Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Contented Couples: Magic, Logic or Luck?
What is the secret of a long and contented marriage?
In Contented Couples, Anne Power interviews eighteen couples in the USA and the UK to discuss how they found each other and what made it... (more)
Couple Therapy: The Basics
Couple Therapy: The Basics provides a comprehensive introduction to couple therapy. Taking both a general overview and a psychoanalytic focus, it addresses the basic questions that both couples and... (more)
Couples as Parents: Explorations in Couple Therapy
Couples as Parents: Explorations in Couple Therapy explores the complex task of parenting from the perspective of the couple relationship.
A book for clinicians and parents alike, it describes... (more)
A Couple State of Mind: The Tavistock Relationships Model for the Psychoanalysis of Couples
This long-awaited book, aimed at an international audience of practitioners, students and teachers of psychoanalytic couple therapy, describes the Tavistock Relationships model of couple... (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)
Sensate Focus and the Psyche: Integrating Sense and Sexuality in Couple Therapy
Sensate Focus and the Psyche explores in depth both psychoanalytic and psychosexual perspectives of sensate focus, a programme of touching exercises for couples with sexual problems, and in so doing... (more)
The Heart of the Matter: Music and Art in Family Therapy
The Heart of the Matter invites therapists from all disciplines to consider the use of music and art in their work with families. It introduces systemic music and art ideas, giving clinical examples... (more)
Creativity in Times of Constraint: A Practitioner's Companion in Mental Health and Social Care
Contemporary practices in mental health (and social care) are increasingly characterized by approaches that overly simplify social, political, and psychological concerns. The persistence and ubiquity... (more)
Couple Therapy for Depression: A Clinician's Guide to Integrative Practice
Depression is second after heart disease as the most damaging health condition in the world. The NHS has devoted huge resources to training thousands of psychological therapists to work in 'Improving... (more)
If Only I Had Known... Avoiding Common Mistakes in Couples Therapy
The co-authors draw on over thirty years of experience to show young therapists how and how not to conduct psychotherapy. Each chapter begins with a vignette illustrating a common mistake, then... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 14 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)
Infidelity: A Practitioner’s Guide to Working with Couples in Crisis
This second edition brings together an impressive array of experts to discuss and provide understanding to the treatment of infidelity.
Bringing together voices from a range of disciplines and... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 11 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)
Mentalization-Based Treatment with Families
Examining clinical practice with families through a mentalizing lens, this innovative book is filled with practical therapeutic strategies and in-depth case illustrations. The expert authors focus on... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Puberty and Adolescence: The Inner Worlds of Teenagers and their Parents
Puberty is a time of tumultuous transition from childhood to adulthood activated by rapid physical changes, hormonal development and explosive activity of neurons. This book explores puberty through... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 9 Number 2
EDITORIAL
PERSONAL VIEW – Oedipus simplex: the British blind spot by Deborah Anna Luepnitz ARTICLES – The first Mrs Winnicott and the second Mrs Winnicott: does...
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High-Conflict Parenting Post-Separation: The Making and Breaking of Family Ties
High-Conflict Parenting Post-Separation: The Making and Breaking of Family Ties describes an innovative approach for families where children are caught up in their parents' acrimonious relationship -... (more)
Working with Attachment in Couples Therapy: A Four-Step Model for Clinical Practice
Through an exploration of extensive case studies, this book demonstrates how the discovery and examination of original childhood attachment wounds is crucial to couple therapy. As many as half of all... (more)
Internal Family Systems Therapy: Second Edition
Now significantly revised with over 70% new material, this is the authoritative presentation of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, which is taught and practiced around the world. IFS reveals how... (more)
The Heart of Couple Therapy: Knowing What to Do and How to Do It
Grounded in a deep understanding of what makes intimate relationships succeed, this book provides concrete guidelines for addressing the complexities of real-world clinical practice with couples.... (more)
The Complete Family Guide to Addiction: Everything You Need to Know Now to Help Your Loved One and Yourself
If you are struggling to help a loved one recover from addiction--and to cope with the devastating impact on the whole family--you are not alone. But until now, there has been no single book that... (more)
Interpretation in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
This collection of contemporary clinically-oriented papers covers a range of theoretical approaches to the fundamentally important technical issue of interpretation. It offers thought-provoking,... (more)
Sex Addiction
Sex Addiction: A Guide for Couples and Those Who Help Them is a practical book that provides empathic support, guidance, information and pragmatic strategies for couples who want to survive sex and... (more)
Bowen Theory's Secrets: Revealing the Hidden Life of Families
Murray Bowen (1913-1990) was the first to study the family in a live-in setting and describe specific details about how families function as systems. His theories dominated family therapy for... (more)
Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals Couples and Families
Drawing on cutting-edge research on adult attachment--and providing an innovative roadmap for clinical practice--Susan M. Johnson argues that psychotherapy is most effective when it focuses on the... (more)
Real and Imaginary Fathers: Development, Transference, and Healing
In this work, Salman Akhtar looks at how many fathers unconsciously, and sometimes quite consciously, attempt to revise their own traumatized childhood by providing their children with possibilities... (more)
Families and How to Survive Them
A life changing book that has sold over 250,000 copies worldwide. Family therapist Dr Robin Skynner and his former patient John Cleese guide us through the daily issues that confront us all in a... (more)
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: Restoring Connection and Promoting Resilience
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy is the definitive manual for applying the effectiveness of emotionally focused therapy (EFT) to the complexities of family life.
The book sets out a... (more)
Couples on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy and the Tavistock Model
Couples on the Couch provides a clear guide to applying the Tavistock model of couple psychotherapy in clinical psychoanalytic practice, offering a compelling sampling of ideas about couple... (more)
Identity, Attachment and Resilience: Exploring Three Generations of a Polish Family
Identity, Attachment and Resilience provides a timely foray into the new field of psychology and genealogy, exploring the relationship between family history and identity. The field encompasses... (more)