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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Same-Sex Couples and Other Identities: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
This book provides a contemporary exploration of psychoanalytic theory and its application to therapy with lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer relationships, challenging heteronormative practice... (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)
Childhood Depression: A Place for Psychotherapy
This title is based on the results of a project based at the Tavistock Clinic in London which set out to explore whether children and young people aged nine years to fifteen years suffering from... (more)
Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption
Many women find mothering a shocking experience in terms of the extremity of feelings it provokes, and the profound changes it seems to prompt in identity, relationship and sense of self. However,... (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)
Falling in Love: Why we choose the lovers we choose (2nd Edition)
This work aims to show that we both consciously and unconsciously select those with whom we have intimate relationships. The mix of psychological research and clinical anecdotes discusses how... (more)
Systemic Perspectives in Mental Health, Social Work and Youth Care: A Relational Compass
Systemic Perspectives in Mental Health, Social Work and Youth Care describes the theoretical foundations of a systemic framework, or ‘systemic lens’, and how the counsellor, therapist, social worker... (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)
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)
Every Family Has A Story: How We Inherit Love and Loss
Why do some families thrive in adversity while others fragment? How can families weather difficult transitions together? Why do our families drive us mad? And how can even small changes greatly... (more)
Family Psychodynamics in Organizational Contexts: The Hidden Forces that Shape the Workplace
This fascinating book shows how an understanding of the psychodynamics of the extended family, from parental relations to sibling rivalries, can provide insight into many of the key issues faced by... (more)
New Understandings of Twin Relationships: From Harmony to Estrangement and Loneliness
New Understandings of Twin Relationships takes an experience-based approach to exploring how twin attachment and estrangement are critical to understanding the push and pull of closely entwined... (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)
Understanding and Managing Parental Alienation: A Guide to Assessment and Intervention
In Understanding and Managing Parental Alienation: A Guide to Assessment and Intervention, Janet Haines, Mandy Matthewson and Marcus Turnbull offer a comprehensive analysis of contemporary... (more)
How Psychotherapy Helps Us Understand Sexual Relationships
In this fascinating book, Cherry Potter takes readers on her personal and professional quest for insights into sex, relationships and gender differences. Why do we feel what we feel, and do what we... (more)
Strong Couples
Strong Couples: Basic Skills that Elicit Connection and Transform Relationships introduces an intelligent and flexible framework to guide sessions with couples. Informed by grounded theory research,... (more)
Family Dramas: Intimacy Power and Systems in Shakespeare's Tragedies
Most of Shakespeare's tragedies have a family drama at their heart. This book brings these relationships to life, offering a radical new perspective on the tragic heroes and their dilemmas. Family... (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)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: 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)
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Parenting Teens and Young Adults: Changing Patterns in Modern Love, Loss, and Longing
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Parenting Teens and Young Adults explores the rich, multi-layered parent-child interactions that unfold during the period of separation and launching. While this is a... (more)
Rewriting the Rules: An Anti Self-Help Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships
We live in a time of uncertainty about relationships. We search for The One but find ourselves staying single because nobody measures up. We long for a happily-ever-after but break-up after break-up... (more)
An Internal Family Systems Guide to Recovery from Eating Disorders: Healing Part by Part
Drawing on the evidence-based Internal Family System (IFS) therapy model, An Internal Family Systems Guide to Recovery from Eating Disorders addresses the necessity of healing the eating disorder... (more)
Sanity, Madness and the Family: Classic Edition
In the late 1950s the psychiatrist R.D.Laing and psychoanalyst Aaron Esterson spent five years interviewing eleven families of female patients diagnosed as 'schizophrenic'. Sanity, Madness and the... (more)