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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Irreverence: A Strategy for Therapists' Survival
Irreverence: A strategy for Therapists' Survival marks the end result of a collaboration between the creative and highly respected therapists and writers in the family therapy field. It continues... (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)
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)
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)
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)
Stop Arguing, Start Talking: The 10 Point Plan for Couples in Conflict: The Relate Guide
For some people, an argument with a loved one is a catastrophe, a sign that a relationship must surely be over, for others a heated discussion is a way of letting off steam, a way of ensuring that... (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)
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)
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)
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)
Hold Me Tight: Your Guide to the Most Successful Approach to Building Loving Relationships
Developed by Dr Sue Johnson over 20 years ago and practised all over the world, Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) has been heralded by Time magazine and the New York Times as the couple... (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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)