Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
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)
Stepping into Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Key Ingredients of Change
This volume makes Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) widely accessible to therapists of different orientations and to therapists in training. It provides clinicians with practical tools, an... (more)
Staying Attached: Fathers and Children in Troubled Times
This book is about the changing social contexts for fathering in the United Kingdom since the end of the Second World War, and the social moves from patriarchal fatherhood to multiple ways of doing... (more)
Couple Stories: Application of Psychoanalytic Ideas in Thinking About Couple Interaction
This book presents the application of key psychoanalytic concepts in thinking about the dynamics in the couple relationship. The contributions to the first part, mainly theory, discuss how different... (more)
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Loss: Mourning, Melancholia and Couples
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Loss: Mourning, Melancholia and Couples is an important and significant new reference text for clinicians, trainees and all of those involved in assisting couples with... (more)
Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy: Foundations of Theory and Practice
In this time of vulnerable marriages and partnerships, many couples seek help for their relationships. Psychoanalytic couple therapy is a growing application of psychoanalysis for which training is... (more)
Brief Therapy With Couples and Families in Crisis
As the average length of therapy shortens, clinicians need a resource to lead them step-by-step through the goals and process of the opening sessions of brief therapy as well as clear treatment maps... (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)
Intrusiveness and Intimacy in the Couple
A collection of papers, largely based on clinical work, which covers a range of concepts and mechanisms which are central to any psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children, adolescents, or adults. It... (more)
The Importance of Fathers: A Psychoanalytic Re-Evaluation
It is widely acknowledged that children need structure, security, stability and attachment to develop and flourish. However, many changes have occurred in society which have changed the traditional... (more)
Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives on Step-families and Step-parenting
Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives on Step-families and Step-parenting looks at the role step-parents can play in the psychic development of children. Step-parenting requires enormous... (more)
LoveSex: An Integrative Model for Sexual Education
This book looks at how our brains, minds, bodies, and emotions interact to create our experience of sexuality, and how we can create a sense of sexual self-esteem and a nutritious sexual diet for... (more)
Work Discussion: Learning from Reflective Practice in Work with Children and Families
'Work Discussion brings together a combination of close observation of, and personal and interpersonal responses to, the minutiae of the work setting and its dynamics, both internal and external.... (more)
Family and Couple Psychoanalysis: A Global Perspective
This book explores family interaction and family psychoanalysis from varying standpoints used around the world. It illustrates these with extensive clinical cases discussed from varying perspectives.... (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)
Oedipus and the Couple
This title consists of a diverse series of contributions and reflections on couples and the Oedipus complex from leading psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in the couples field. All contributors... (more)
Working Systemically with Families: Formulation, Intervention and Evaluation
Systemic theory offers a valuable framework for integrating the diverse ideas found throughout the mental health arena in both theory and clinical practice. With this accessible book, the authors... (more)
The Uninvited Guest: Emerging from Narcissism towards Marriage
A fascinating and imaginative book combining psychoanalytic theory and literature - in particular classic plays about marriage and married couples - to help couples therapists as they piece together... (more)
Psychotherapy With Couples
A thought provoking, persuasive, challenging, and above all practical guide for beginners and more experienced therapists alike. It shows the demands and complexity of marital work and is an... (more)
The Art of Making Children: The New World of Assisted Reproductive Technology
Advances in assisted reproductive technology are producing a new world whose boundaries and implications have yet to be fully explored and understood. New advances are announced and hit the headlines... (more)
Sex, Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
The contributors to this book have drawn on different mentors to provide a framework for understanding the sexual problems of the couples they see, and to inform the work they do. But whether Freud,... (more)
Being with Older People: A Systemic Approach
The authors of this volume take as their starting point "striking moments" in their practice with older people, their families and other practitioners. They integrate these with current systemic... (more)
The Space Between: Experience, Context, and Process in the Therapeutic Relationship
The papers in this book focus on many different aspects of the therapeutic relationship, including the self of the therapist, working cross-culturally and with language difference, impasse, risk... (more)
Doing Couple Therapy: Craft and Creativity in Work with Intimate Partners: Second Edition
Now thoroughly revised, this practical, user-friendly guide has helped thousands of novice couple therapists and students to navigate the challenges of clinical work with couples in conflict. Robert... (more)
A Relational Psychoanalytic Approach to Couples Therapy
Ringstrom's relational approach to couples therapy is based on three themes: actualization of self-experience in the context of a committed, long-term intimate relationship; mutual recognition of... (more)
Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work
Working With Parents Makes Therapy Work demonstrates the crucial role of parent work in child and adolescent therapy. The Novicks suggest that restoring the parent-child relationship contributes to... (more)
Intimate Transformations: Babies with their Families
This enriching book describes the value of learning about the development of the human personality through the experience of observing a baby in the context of the family. It is distinctive in the... (more)
Work with Parents: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
Drawing on the rich range and depth of the clinical experience of the contributors, this welcome volume will be a valuable tool for clinicians and trainees. The authors share a powerful commitment to... (more)
Countertransference in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
This collection of papers from psychoanalysts across Europe is intended to highlight the similarites and differences between approaches to working with children and adolescents. Part of the EFPP... (more)
The Good Divorce: A Psychoanalyst's Exploration of Separation, Divorce, and Childcare
Divorce is a complicated process and not a single event. It has major life implications and must be done right. In this regard, the good divorce is an ethical divorce.
The Good Divorce does not... (more)