Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
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)
Brief Encounters with Couples
Deriving from a conference organised by the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute, the present volume draws the main focus of its inquiry from a few fundamental questions.
In its various brief... (more)
Working with Children and Parents Through Separation and Divorce
This text combines research, clinical and practical approaches to working with children and parents going through stressful changes linked to separation or divorce. A focused approach to divorce... (more)
The Expanded Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives
This classic Family Therapy text continues to provide "a new and more comprehensive way to think about human development and the life cycle," reflecting changes in society away from orientation... (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)
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)
Systems and Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Integrations in Family Therapy
'This intellectually rigorous and generative collection of papers, positioned at the intersection of systemic and psychoanalytic therapy, captures the potential synergy of bringing these two honoured... (more)
The Dialogical Therapist: Dialogue in Systemic Practice
Several good books exist about systemic understanding in therapy and a few about dialogic understanding. However, none try to bridge the gap between these two world views, which have some... (more)
Rewilding Therapy: Ecosystemic Theory and Practice
This book is about doing therapy in Nature - with Nature as your co-therapist. The handbook provides you with an ecosystemic map which offers you guidance on how to use key systemic ideas to rewild... (more)
Existential Perspectives on Relationship Therapy
Human beings live in constant battle with issues that are fundamental to their existence. Whether it is a fear of death or problems with intimacy, learning to live with these issues whilst loving... (more)
Child-Focused Practice: A Collaborative Systemic Approach
The author, with over twenty years of experience of working with children, writes refreshingly about the practical aspects of his work. He takes traditional and contemporary theories and explains... (more)
Sex Addiction
Sex Addiction: A Guide for Couples and Those Who Help Them is a practical book that provides empathic support, guidance, information and pragmatic strategies for couples who want to survive sex and... (more)
Being with Older People: A Systemic Approach
The authors of this volume take as their starting point "striking moments" in their practice with older people, their families and other practitioners. They integrate these with current systemic... (more)
Countertransference in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
This collection of papers from psychoanalysts across Europe is intended to highlight the similarites and differences between approaches to working with children and adolescents. Part of the EFPP... (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)
Ethics and Professional Issues in Couple and Family Therapy: Second Edition
Ethics and Professional Issues in Couple and Family Therapy, Second Edition builds upon the strong foundations of the first edition. This new edition addresses the 2015 AAMFT Code of Ethics as well... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 3 Number 1
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)
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)
Dialogical Meetings in Social Networks
This book describes and analyses two dialogic network practices: 'Open Dialogues' - developed for use in psychiatric crisis situations - and 'Anticipation Dialogues' - used in less acute situations... (more)
Adult Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy: The Secure Base in Practice and Research
Attachment theory has triggered an explosion of research into family relationships. This volume brings research and practice perspectives to bear on the adult couple relationship, and provides a... (more)
Family Based Treatment for Restrictive Eating Disorders: A Guide for Supervision and Advanced Clinical Practice
Family Based Treatment for Restrictive Eating Disorders unpacks some of the most common dilemmas providers face in implementation of Family Based Treatment (FBT) across the spectrum of restrictive... (more)
Strengthening Family Resilience: Third Edition
In this widely used course text and practitioner resource, Froma Walsh provides a state-of-the-art framework for understanding resilience in families and how to foster it. Illuminating the complex... (more)
Emotions and the Therapist: A Systemic-Dialogical Approach
In recent years, systemic theory and practice adopted a dialogical orientation, centred on the persons of the therapist and client. This has led to a growing attention toward emotions, which, in this... (more)
Positions and Polarities in Contemporary Systemic Practice: The Legacy of David Campbell
This book provides a rich collection of the work that has been informed by the ideas of the eminent family therapist and clinical psychologist, Dr David Campbell who died in August 2009. Contributors... (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)
Intimate Transformations: Babies with their Families
This enriching book describes the value of learning about the development of the human personality through the experience of observing a baby in the context of the family. It is distinctive in the... (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)
Group Therapy for High-Conflict Divorce: The ‘No Kids in the Middle’ Intervention Programme
The "No Kids in the Middle" (Kinderen uit de Knel) intervention programme addresses high-conflict divorce through a multi-family approach. This first English language edition contains descriptions of... (more)
Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives on Stepfamilies and Stepparenting
Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives on Stepfamilies and Stepparenting looks at the role stepparents can play in the psychic development of children. Stepparenting requires enormous... (more)
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: Restoring Connection and Promoting Resilience
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy is the definitive manual for applying the effectiveness of emotionally focused therapy (EFT) to the complexities of family life.
The book sets out a... (more)