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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 Narcissistic/Borderline Couple: New Approaches to Marital Therapy (2nd Edition)
In this second edition to her book, Dr Joan Lachkar ventures to go beyond narcissistic and borderline couples to a melange of many other dyadic configurations. The book has been updated to... (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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
The Baby and the Couple: Understanding and Treating Young Families
The Baby and the Couple provides an insider's view on how infant communication develops in the context of the family and how parents either work together as a team or struggle in the process. The... (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)
Systemic Couple Therapy and Depression
Based on a research project which demonstrated the effectiveness of systemic therapy, this book can be used as the basis of a training programme in systemic couple therapy, as a phase in the... (more)
Object Relations Family Therapy
Aims to give individual psychotherapists a way of using dynamic listening and interpreting when working with couples and families, and offers family therapists the tools of psychoanalysis for... (more)
The Disordered Couple
The Disordered Couple, Second Edition focuses on couples with psychiatric disorders and/or relational disorders that significantly impact their relationship, mental health, and well-being. It is the... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal - Volume 8 Number 2
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, and aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (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)
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)
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)
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)
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)