Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
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)
A Playful Approach to Restoration Therapy: Helping Kids Play their Way from Pain to Peace
This accessible guide provides family and play therapists with an innovative method for addressing maladaptive emotional behavior in vulnerable children, helping them develop a practical... (more)
The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired
By the New York Times bestselling authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline. What's the one thing a parent can do to make the most difference to their child in the long term? The... (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)
Motherhood and Mental Illness: A Relational Treatment Approach
Motherhood and Mental Illness offers an in-depth, comprehensive relational psychotherapeutic framework to provide effective treatment for those experiencing maternal mental illness.
This book... (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)
Integrative Couple Therapy in Action: A Practical Guide for Handling Common Relationship Problems and Crises
Presents a unique offering that integrates systems theory, psychodynamics, and psychoeducation interventions within a biopsychosocial conceptualization of couples' problems Offers suggestions for... (more)
Practicing Prodependence: The Clinical Alternative to Codependency Treatment
In Practicing Prodependence: The Clinical Alternative to Codependency Treatment, Drs. Weiss and Buck present a new social and psychological model of human interdependence-focused treatment for... (more)
Parental Alienation: An Evidence-Based Approach
This book provides a comprehensive overview of established evidence-based interventions for the problems inherent in parental alienation.
The book focuses on helping families and ensuring the... (more)
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did)That You Did)
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
From the UK's favourite therapist, as seen on Channel 4's Grayson's Art Club.
'A wonderful book' Richard Osman.
'So clear and true ... Helpful for all... (more)
Narrative Psychiatry and Family Collaborations
Narrative Psychiatry and Family Collaborations is about helping families with complex psychiatric problems by seeing and meeting the families and the family members, as the best versions of... (more)
Performance-Based Family Therapy: A Therapist's Guide to Measurable Change
In this groundbreaking book, Charles Fishman uniquely incorporates and develops results-based accountability (RBA) into the framework of structural family therapy.
Collaborating with the... (more)
Family Systems Theory Simplified: Applying and Understanding Systemic Therapy Models
In this textbook for students and instructors of marriage and family therapy, Bethany C. Suppes offers a refreshed perspective of Family Systems Therapy (FST), focusing on the importance of... (more)
Parenthood and Immigration in Psychoanalysis: Shaping the Therapeutic Setting
This book presents a comprehensive overview of psychoanalytic work with immigrant mothers, fathers, and their children, combining clinical examples and contemporary research to explore ways in which... (more)
Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook
This second edition of Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook has been fully revised by expert therapists with advances in attachment science and emotionally focused therapy (EFT)... (more)