Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
A Guide for the Family
A primer for mental health professionals who work with families. It recognises and borrows from the work of well-known and skilled family therapists to offer a practical approach to dealing with... (more)
Family Systems Thinking
This work begins with the early origins of family therapy. It introduces the field of systems theory; describes and demonstrates four approaches to family therapy; presents the author's own... (more)
Marriage Contracts and Couple Therapy
Emphasises the role of 'the individual unwritten contract', which encompasses the expectations and promises - both conscious and unconscious - that each partner brings to a marriage or committed... (more)
A Marital Therapy Manual
Presents the basic principles and working techniques of marital therapy, including analyses of the four most commonly observed pathological marriage patterns. From these the author sketches the... (more)
Helping Families to Change
Discussing learning to change through modalities other than speech, this work emphasises the importance of non-verbal body experience, and of awareness of kinetic cues in interpersonal relationships.... (more)
Family Therapy with Couples
Outlines ways to use the parental unit as a major force for change in families. Topics covered include: understanding relationship problems systematically; the first interview; rethinking the family... (more)
A Family Systems Approach to Individual Therapy
An exploration of how systemic family therapy techniques can be integrated with individual therapy. It features numerous case examples and practical guidelines and ideas.
Counselling for Family Problems
The author places helping families in a traditional counselling framework and maintains that successful family counselling is a combination of several elements, including: working with the family's... (more)
The Transmission of Depression in Families and Children
Describes multiple family, individual and psychopharmacological therapeutic interventions on depression.
Narrative Therapy: The Social Construction of Preferred Realities
This work describes the clinical application of ideas and practices which has come to be known as 'narrative therapy'. It traces guiding metaphors of family therapy, and explains the basic ideas of... (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)
Object Relations Couple Therapy
In this landmark book, David Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff, both psychoanalysts, develop a way of thinking about and working with the couple as a small group of two, held together as a tightly knit... (more)
Cybernetics of Prejudices in the Practice of Psychotherapy
Two central ideas have become part of the orthodoxy of modern family therapy thinking. The first is that the therapist is part of the system he or she observes, and the second is that the therapist... (more)
Equal Partners, Good Friends: Empowering couples through therapy
This study examines the connection between inequality in marriage and marital distress, drawing on research and interviews. Focusing on issues of gender, sex roles and power, it provides a clinical... (more)
Art Therapy with Families in Crisis
This volume describes art therapy interventions for particularly dysfunctional families and explains the connections between the process of creating art and the curative process in meeting these... (more)
Handbook of relational diagnosis and dysfunctional relationship patterns
In this study, family clinicians and researchers present a typology of relational disorders. They examine the role of diagnosis in couples and family therapy, and offer clinical criteria for... (more)
Family Systems Therapy: Developments in the Milan-Systemic Therapies
This book gives an incisive and perceptive overview of the development of systemic therapies associated with the Milan approach. The author describes how, during the last decade, systemic therapies... (more)
New Language of Change
Showing how to build on client strengths, this book details a collaborative process in which the therapist and client co-construct meaning in the therapeutic conversation. 464 pages. (more)
The Motherhood Constellation: A Unified View of Parent-Infant Psychotherapy
The author addresses the field of infant mental health. He draws on his experience - in both the lab and the clinic - to present an integrated model of treatment for both infants and their... (more)
Introducing User-friendly Family Therapy
So much family therapy is not user-friendly, it is disempowering and too technique-oriented. This thought-provoking work is practical in its emphasis and endeavours to show that family therapy can... (more)
You Can Go Home Again: Reconnecting with Your Family
An update to the enlightening book that introduced readers to the power of exploring their family dynamics through genograms.
This classic text poignantly explains how constructing the genogram,... (more)
Expanding the Limits of Individual and Family Therapies: A Critical Realist Approach
This book invites individual therapists to think systemically (including issues of social justice) and family therapists to explore a deeper understanding of the individual in contexts, including the... (more)
Long Term Systemic Therapy: Individuals, Couples and Families
Systemic psychotherapy has long been conceptualised and practiced as brief psychotherapy, in both the public sector and in independent practice, but it is now increasingly becoming a longer term... (more)
Couple Relationships in a Global Context: Understanding Love and Intimacy Across Cultures
This book examines the significance of the couple relationship in the 21st century, exploring in depth how couple relationships are changing in different parts of the world. It highlights global... (more)
Systemic Research in Individual, Couple, and Family Therapy and Counseling
This book examines systemic family therapy research, addressing key topics across the interrelated disciplines of psychotherapy, social work, and counseling. Drawing from contributions at the 2017... (more)