Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Teaching Systemic Thinking
Therapists recognise that the practice of systemic family therapy is as much about the way one thinks as it is about what one does, and this book was the first in this field to address specific ways... (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)
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)
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)
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Loss: Mourning, Melancholia and Couples
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Loss: Mourning, Melancholia and Couples is an important and significant new reference text for clinicians, trainees and all of those involved in assisting couples with... (more)
Couples on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy and the Tavistock Model
Couples on the Couch provides a clear guide to applying the Tavistock model of couple psychotherapy in clinical psychoanalytic practice, offering a compelling sampling of ideas about couple... (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)
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)
Mindfulness-Based Play-Family Therapy: Theory and Practice
This book presents a new and comprehensive framework for helping children through play therapy that is set within the context of the family. This experience-based therapeutic model respectfully... (more)
Families in Transformation: A Psychoanalytic Approach
Families in Transformation is a collection of essays by eminent scholars on the psychoanalysis of couples and families and provides a wide ranging and articulated picture of the current situation in... (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)
Systems-Centered Therapy: Clinical Practice with Individuals, Families and Groups
Systems-centered therapy (SCT) brings an innovative approach to clinical practice. Developed by Yvonne Agazarian, SCT introduces a theory and set of methods that put systems ideas into practice. The... (more)
How Couple Relationships Shape our World: Clinical Practice, Research, and Policy Perspectives
This book is about the importance of the couple relationship in the broadest terms. It draws on clinical researches into the inner lived world of adult couples, empirical developmental research into... (more)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Finding Your Voice as a Beginning Marriage and Family Therapist
Finding Your Voice as a Beginning Marriage and Family Therapist provides support to early career marriage and family therapists who seek authentic and meaningful connections with themselves, their... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal - Volume 9 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)
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)
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)
Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family
Mental health professionals consider the impact of death on entire family systems, the multiple generational legacies of loss, and the differential impact of a death depending on the developmental... (more)
Families and How to Survive Them
A life changing book that has sold over 250,000 copies worldwide. Family therapist Dr Robin Skynner and his former patient John Cleese guide us through the daily issues that confront us all in a... (more)
Doing Couple Therapy: Craft and Creativity in Work with Intimate Partners: Second Edition
Now thoroughly revised, this practical, user-friendly guide has helped thousands of novice couple therapists and students to navigate the challenges of clinical work with couples in conflict. Robert... (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)
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)
Autism and the Family: Understanding and Supporting Parents and Siblings
The reverberations of autism spectrum disorders among parents and siblings can be complex. Parents may grapple with the impact of their child's initial diagnosis, wrestle with the tension between... (more)
Relational Family Therapy: The Systemic, Interpersonal, and Intrapsychic Experience
Relational Family Therapy introduces a cutting-edge family and couple therapy model that synthesizes relational theories and integrates object relations theory with interpersonal psychoanalysis and... (more)