Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Sexual Awareness: Your Guide to Healthy Couple Sexuality: Fifth Edition
The new mantra in sex therapy includes desire, pleasure, eroticism, and satisfaction. In Sexual Awareness, veteran authors Barry and Emily McCarthy provide psychological, biological, and relational... (more)
Normal Family Processes: Growing Diversity and Complexity: Fourth Edition
Widely adopted, this valued course text and practitioner guide has expanded the understanding of family normality and healthy functioning in our increasingly diverse society. The editor and... (more)
Spiritual Resources in Family Therapy: Second Edition
Exploring the role of spirituality in couple and family relationships, this successful text and practitioner guide illustrates ways to tap spiritual resources for coping, healing, and resilience.... (more)
Treating Sexual Desire Disorders: A Clinical Casebook
The loss or lack of interest in sex is a common complaint in sex therapy. Organized around in-depth case presentations, this book showcases effective treatment approaches for individuals and couples.... (more)
Picking Up the Pieces After Domestic Violence: A Practical Resource for Supporting Parenting Skills
How does domestic violence affect children and parents, and their relationships with each other? How can a parent who has been abused regain authority over the children? Can a parent who has scared a... (more)
Discovering Your Couple Sexual Style: Sharing Desire, Pleasure, and Satisfaction
Think all sex should be earth shattering? The quality of most couple sex doesn't measure up to the much distorted image of the perfect romantic love/passionate sex encounter portrayed in popular... (more)
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Heralded by the "New York Times" and "Time" magazine as the couple therapy with the highest rate of success, Emotionally Focused Therapy works because it views the love relationship as an attachment... (more)
Promoting Positive Parenting: An Attachment-Based Intervention
Illuminates the successful implementations of one of the few evidence-based parenting intervention programs. More than 20 years ago the editors began experimenting with videotaping parental behavior... (more)
The Performance of Practice: Enhancing the Repertoire of Therapy with Children and Families
'This book is about how to maintain an aliveness to the possibilities in therapy and practice and how to challenge ideas of orthodoxy in theory and methodologies that can become stale or followed... (more)
What is This Thing Called Love? A Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Couples
A clear how-to guide for carrying out psychotherapy with couples from a psychoanalytic perspective. The book draws on both early and contemporary psychoanalytic knowledge, explaining how each theory... (more)
How to Live with Autism and Asperger Syndrome: Practical Strategies for Parents and Professionals
This introduction to caring for a child with autism is a useful resource for teachers and for the immediate and extended family members of a child with autism. In clear and simple language, the... (more)
The Family and the School: A Joint Systems Approach to Problems with Children: Second Edition
This reissued classic contains material specifically related to work with schools and reflects the major changes in society, in legislation and in the interaction between families and the education... (more)
Erectile Dysfunction: Integrating Couple Therapy, Sex Therapy, and Medical Treatment
Viagra and other new treatments may raise hopes for a revitalised sex life, but they may uncover other sexual dysfunctions. This book presents a systematic method for evaluating erectile dysfunction,... (more)
Perspectives on Supervision
This reader-friendly and stimulating volume, indispensable to anyone interested in supervision from a systemic perspective, emerged from a conference organised jointly by the Institute of Family... (more)
Family transformation through divorce and remarriage: A systemic approach
Looks at the complete divorce-remarriage-stepfamily cycle in the context of demographic data, the legal process and the systemic theoretical framework. (more)
From Impasse to Intimacy: How Understanding Unconscious Needs Can Transform Relationships
This text identifies the unconscious factors that influence the way people feel and behave in intimate relationships, covering the needs and fears that create and sustain dysfunctional patterns of... (more)
Family Therapy Techniques
A master of family therapy, Salvador Minuchin, traces for the first time the minute operations of day-to-day practice. Dr. Minuchin has achieved renown for his theoretical breakthroughs and his... (more)
Rethinking Marriage: Public and Private Perspectives
'This book brings together a group of specialists who attempt to describe the process of interaction between the inner and personal and the outer and social. They illustrate what is happening to... (more)
Research Methods in Family Therapy: Second Edition
Fully revised and updated, the second edition of this widely adopted text and professional reference reflects significant recent changes in the landscape of family therapy research. Leading... (more)
Brief Therapy with Couples: An Integrative Approach
Therapists and counsellors in training and practice will find in this book a new, accessible and powerful approach to short-term therapy with couples. Much problem behaviour in relationships can be... (more)
Multiple Voices: Narrative in Systemic Family Psychotherapy
Part of the Tavistock Clinic Series, this book focuses on narrative and stories in Family Systems Therapy - particularly on how stories develop within the domain of a therapist's own theoretical,... (more)
Social Interaction and Personal Relationships
Part of the series "Social Psychology: Personal Lives, Social Worlds". (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)
Handing Over: Developing Consistency Across Shifts in Residential and Health Settings
This book introduces a new way of conducting a handover which allows the workers themselves to see the process from a wider perspective and to gather information in a different way. The major change... (more)
Family Therapy: First Steps Towards a Systemic Approach
This book introduces a range of concepts, skills, and applications from a systemic approach to the rapidly expanding field of family therapy. (more)
Internal Family Systems: Making a Start (And Getting Curious about Parts)
Do you feel stuck?
Is your life - and are your relationships - lacking in spark, intimacy and vulnerability?
Do you find that therapy just doesn't quite work for you, though you've tried it... (more)
The EcoSystemic Return: An Anthology for Now
The EcoSystemic Return is an anthology of papers by and for systemic practitioners that uses an ecological, systemic lens to critically engage with environmental matters such as climate change and... (more)
Infidelity: A Practitioner’s Guide to Working with Couples in Crisis
This second edition brings together an impressive array of experts to discuss and provide understanding to the treatment of infidelity.
Bringing together voices from a range of disciplines and... (more)
The AutPlay® Therapy Handbook: Integrative Family Play Therapy with Neurodivergent Children
The AutPlay® Therapy Handbook provides a thorough explanation and understanding of AutPlay® Therapy (an integrative family play therapy framework) and details how to effectively implement AutPlay®... (more)