Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Sex, Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
The contributors to this book have drawn on different mentors to provide a framework for understanding the sexual problems of the couples they see, and to inform the work they do. But whether Freud,... (more)
In My Mind's Eye: Family Constellations in Therapy and Counselling
"In My Mind's Eye" is the first book about family constellations in individual therapy and counselling. The procedures presented rest on a broad range of therapeutic knowledge and experience from... (more)
Creating New Families: Therapeutic Approaches to Fostering, Adoption and Kinship Care
Creating New Families is intended to reflect the practice of the specialist, multi-disciplinary Fostering and Adoption team in the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic. The team is... (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)
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)
Torn in Two: The Experience of Maternal Ambivalence: Revised Edition
A new, revised edition of this bold and exciting book. More and more women confess uneasily to finding motherhood as much a source of pain as pleasure. Rozsika Parker presents a new understanding of... (more)
Interpretation in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
This collection of contemporary clinically-oriented papers covers a range of theoretical approaches to the fundamentally important technical issue of interpretation. It offers thought-provoking,... (more)
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Families
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Families describes SFBT from a systemic perspective and provides students, educators, trainers, and practitioners with a clear explanation and rich examples of... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal - Volume 8 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)
Why Siblings Matter: The Role of Sibling Relationships in Development and Well-Being
Why Siblings Matter is a cornerstone text on siblinghood, offering a much-needed scientific update on the supportive role of sibling relationships. Integrating findings from a 10 year longitudinal... (more)
Couple Dynamics: Psychoanalytic Perspectives in Work with the Individual, the Couple, and the Group
This book presents psychoanalytic thinking about the phenomenon of the couple and couple dynamics in internal and external reality and at different levels of organisation: the ‘couple’ in the... (more)
The Good Divorce: A Psychoanalyst's Exploration of Separation, Divorce, and Childcare
Divorce is a complicated process and not a single event. It has major life implications and must be done right. In this regard, the good divorce is an ethical divorce.
The Good Divorce does not... (more)
Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy: Fifth Edition
The leading clinical reference and text in the field, originally developed by the late Sandra Leiblum, this volume addresses the full range of sexual problems and concerns that lead men, women, and... (more)
Losing a Parent to Suicide: Using Lived Experiences to Inform Bereavement Counseling
The suicide of a parent has life-long consequences; few more traumatic scenarios exist, and counselors often struggle for ways to help clients deal with its effects. Few understand the pain and... (more)
The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Mentalizing Tales of Dating and Marriage
The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Mentalizing Tales of Dating and Marriage is about the dynamics of intimate interpersonal relationships (dating and marriage) - how and why human pairings occur, what... (more)
Becoming Parents and Overcoming Obstacles: Understanding the Experience of Miscarriage, Premature Births, Infertility, and Postnatal Depression
There are many books that deal with pregnancy and maternity, and a large number of magazines and articles on paediatric nursing that examine these subjects from different points of view. This volume... (more)
A Relational Psychoanalytic Approach to Couples Therapy
Ringstrom's relational approach to couples therapy is based on three themes: actualization of self-experience in the context of a committed, long-term intimate relationship; mutual recognition of... (more)
Gender and Power in Families
The systems approach to the family is based on the assumptions that there is equality between men and women in the family, and that women and men are treated equally in clinical practice. The... (more)
The Embedded Self: An Integrative Psychodynamic and Systemic Perspective on Couples and Family Therapy: Second Edition
First published in 1996, The Embedded Self was lauded as "a brilliant and long overdue rapprochement between psychoanalysis and family therapy conceived by a practitioner trained and experienced in... (more)
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)
Couple Attachments: Theoretical and Clinical Studies
The couple relationship is at the centre of this book. The complex nature of the couple attachment is emphasized, drawing both on psychoanalytic concepts and on attachment theory. The chapters aim to... (more)
Innovations in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy
Innovations in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy has emerged from the authors' and contributors' excitement about the proliferation of parent-infant psychotherapy work around the world. This model of... (more)
The Therapeutic Relationship in Systemic Therapy
Brings the issue of the therapeutic relationship in family systems therapy into focus, by examing the relationships between the client family as a system, and the use of self in therapy.
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)
The Creative Therapist in Practice
In The Creative Therapist in Practice Hillary and Bradford Keeney present a radically innovative approach to the practice of therapy. Combining improvisational performing arts, action-oriented... (more)
In Therapy Together: Family Therapy as a Dialogue
Families come in all shapes and sizes, and all have love at their roots; however, by the time a family requests help from a psychotherapist, resentment, fear and disappointment have often become the... (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)
A Family Systems Guide to Infidelity: Helping Couples Understand, Recover From, and Avoid Future Affairs
A Family Systems Guide to Infidelity offers an explanatory model and concrete techniques, enabling therapists and counselors to treat the core of a couple's relationship problems instead of merely... (more)
Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives on Step-families and Step-parenting
Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives on Step-families and Step-parenting looks at the role step-parents can play in the psychic development of children. Step-parenting requires enormous... (more)
Family Therapy: An Introduction to Process, Practice, and Theory
Family Therapy: An Introduction to Process, Practice and Theory is a primer for students, professionals, and trainees to understand how family therapists conceptualize the problems people bring to... (more)