Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal: Volume 11 Number 1 – Special Issue: Separation and Divorce
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
– Notes on working with divorcing and separating couples by Avi Shmueli
– Micro-separations: how to traumatise your spouse on a daily basis by Brett... (more)
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)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Illegitimacy, Adoption and Reproduction Technology: Strangers as Kin
In this book, Prophecy Coles traces the existential history of the unwanted child with particular attention to the illegitimate child, linking myth, literature and clinical practice in the historical... (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)
Make Room for Baby: Perinatal Child-Parent Psychotherapy to Repair Trauma and Promote Attachment
This state-of-the-art clinician's guide describes Perinatal Child-Parent Psychotherapy (P-CPP), a treatment for pregnant women and their partners whose readiness to nurture a baby is compromised by... (more)
What Therapists Say and Why They Say It: Effective Therapeutic Responses and Techniques
What Therapists Say and Why They Say It, Third Edition, is one of the most practical and flexible textbooks available to counseling students. The new edition includes more than one hundred techniques... (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)
Addictive States of Mind
'Perversion is taken to mean different things within psychoanalytic discourse. In this book the authors view perversions, not in terms of specific behaviours, but as a type of blueprint for object... (more)
Dropping the Baby and Other Scary Thoughts: Breaking the Cycle of Unwanted Thoughts in Parenthood
This accessible guide addresses the nature of the intrusive and unwanted thoughts that can be common in new parenthood, and offers practical answers and advice on how to tackle these.
With fresh... (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)
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)
Engaging Couples: New Directions in Therapeutic in Work with Families
This book is a challenge to the silos in our human services that an 'atomized' focus gives rise to. They are evident in the chasm that can exist between child and adult mental health care, between... (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)
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 Motherhood Constellation: A Unified View of Parent-Infant Psychotherapy
The author addresses the field of infant mental health. He draws on his experience - in both the lab and the clinic - to present an integrated model of treatment for both infants and their... (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)
Innovations in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy
Innovations in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy has emerged from the authors' and contributors' excitement about the proliferation of parent-infant psychotherapy work around the world. This model of... (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)
Surviving and Thriving in Care and Beyond: Personal and Professional Perspectives
This is a book about children who have to grow up apart from their biological parents, the impact of this on their lives and on those who look after them, and how we can respond to the challenges... (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)
Culture and Reflexivity in Systemic Psychotherapy: Mutual Perspectives
The therapeutic relationship is increasingly becoming a central topic in systemic psychotherapy and cross-cultural thinking. Here, experienced systemic psychotherapists offer their reflections and... (more)
Systemic Therapy and Attachment Narratives: Applications in a Range of Clinical Settings
Professional interest in the clinical applications of attachment theory continues to grow and evolve, and at the same time narrative approaches are also gaining ground. This book explores how... (more)
Mirrors and Reflections: Processes of Systemic Supervision
In this volume, as the title indicates, the focus is on understanding and elaborating what might be said to be "going on" in supervision as well as further exploring what is distinctive about... (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)
Creating New Families: Therapeutic Approaches to Fostering, Adoption and Kinship Care
Creating New Families is intended to reflect the practice of the specialist, multi-disciplinary Fostering and Adoption team in the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic. The team is... (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)
Death Talk: Conversations with Children and Families
This book tackles head on the often tabooed subject of death. It distils sophisticated clinical work into simple language, and describes simple techniques for talking to children about dying. The... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal: Volume 10 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)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal - Volume 9 Number 2
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
PERSONAL VIEW – Oedipus simplex: the British blind spot by Deborah Anna Luepnitz
ARTICLES
– The first Mrs Winnicott and the second Mrs Winnicott: does... (more)
Brothers and Sisters: Developmental, Dynamic, and Technical Aspects of the Sibling Relationship
Sibling relationships and rivalry are as old as recorded history. This analysis explores that ambivalence between siblings, which casts its shadow throughout people's lifetimes and affects their... (more)