Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Family Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents
This book describes a blend of insight-oriented, behavioral, and strategic family therapy, which the author has developed over thirty-four years of dealing with suicidal adolescents. It aims not to... (more)
Couple Therapy: The Self in the Relationship
This book presents students and experienced practitioners alike with an accessible guide on the complex dynamics of the couple relationship. Combining the theoretical grounding of various... (more)
What Do Mothers Want?: Developmental Perspectives, Clinical Challenges
What do mothers want and need from their parenting partners, their extended families, their friends, colleagues, and communities? And what can mental health professionals do to help them meet their... (more)
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: How Couples Really Work
This book, written in plain language by an experienced, psychoanalytically-orientated therapist, is aimed at lay readers who wish to understand how couples consciously and unconsciously operate in... (more)
The Ethics of Interpersonal Relationships
'Our inspiration for writing this book springs from a deep feeling for people and a grave concern that without a proper understanding of the reasons for their inhumanity in relation to one another... (more)
Literature and Therapy: A Systemic View
Literature and Therapy: A Systemic View is an invitation to the world of literature, drawing us into the creative and imaginative spaces which lie between readers and their choice of novels, plays... (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)
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)
Understanding Adoption: Clinical Work with Adults, Children, and Parents
Adoption has become widely practiced, accepted, and accessible, and has greatly changed the composition of families making it a timely subject for study. The authors of Understanding Adoption... (more)
Quickies: The Handbook of Brief Sex Therapy
Effective techniques for fashioning pleasurable and satisfying sex lives. Here, Shelley K. Green and Douglas Flemons gather a wonderful array of approaches to sex therapy, each presented by a... (more)
Children with Sexual Behavior Problems: Family-Based, Attachment-Focused Therapy
Prevailing taboos about sex and the misconception that sexually inappropriate touching, language, and other actions by children are always signs of sexual abuse lead families to hide problems.... (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)
The Evolution of Family Patterns and Indirect Therapy with Adolescents
This text presents a picture of contemporary family patterns that might produce problems of social and psychopathologic deviance in adolescents. It is the outcome of the teamwork of 32 researchers... (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)
Intimate Warfare: Regarding the Fragility of Family Relations
The community in which children are nursed; the family, should by all means be a safe haven. However, it is not. People in family relations are more likely to be threatened, hit, kicked, raped or... (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)
Infidelity: A Practitioner's Guide to Working with Couples in Crisis
When one partner in a relationship is unfaithful to the other, it takes a lot of work by both parties involved to salvage the relationship. In today's therapy-friendly climate, marriage/couples... (more)
Collaborative Therapy with Multi-Stressed Families: Second Edition
Critically examining many professional assumptions about "difficult" families, the book outlines concepts and clinical practices that support the development of a respectful, constructive, and... (more)
African American Family Life: Ecological and Cultural Diversity
Recognizing the diversity of contemporary African-American families, experts present the latest knowledge on such topics as family formation, gender roles, child rearing, care of the elderly, and... (more)
Nurture Groups in School and at Home: Connecting with Children with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
This book explores the ways in which pupils with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties can be effectively engaged in schooling either in school or at home. It explains the social and... (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)
Working with Families of the Poor: Second Edition
Now in a substantially revised second edition, this widely adopted text and practical guidebook presents the fundamentals of family-based intervention with clients struggling with chronic... (more)
Ordinary Families, Special Children: A Systems Approach to Childhood Disability: Third Edition (Hardback)
See catalogue number 28887 for the paperback edition. Now in a revised and expanded third edition, this popular clinical reference and text provides a multisystems perspective on childhood disability... (more)
The Abusive Personality: Violence and Control in Intimate Relationships: Second Edition (Hardback)
The new edition of this popular, strong seller includes two new chapters and thorough updates. The book describes an evidence-based treatment approach for a perennial, urgent problem. It has little... (more)
Resilient Therapy: Working with Children and Families
Using detailed case material from a range of contexts, this book illustrates how resilient mechanisms work in complex situations, and how resilient therapy works in real-life situations. Whilst much... (more)
Sistering: Power and Change in Female Relationships
Sister stories are rare compared with images of celebrity sisters and 'sisterhood'. Based on 37 interviews, this fascinating book uncovers sisters' complex relationships. Readers will play 'mapping'... (more)
Psychosis in the Family: The Journey of a Transpersonal Psychotherapist and Mother
This is a book written not just by a professional transpersonal psychotherapist but by someone who has walked the heart-rending path and experienced the psychological trauma of loving someone in... (more)
The Use of Psychoanalytic Concepts in Therapy with Families: For all Professionals Working with Families
This book begins with a readable practitioner's guide to psychoanalytic theory and concepts. It moves on to give a number of detailed practice-based examples of the application of this theoretical... (more)
Love: Bondage or Liberation?: A Psycholological Exploration of the Meaning, Values and Dangers of Falling in Love
Much has been written about the function of falling in love in the course of therapy itself. This book has a much broader aim. Deirdre Johnson, a Jungian analyst and psychotherapy trainer, uses her... (more)
