Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Stop Arguing, Start Talking: The 10 Point Plan for Couples in Conflict: The Relate Guide
For some people, an argument with a loved one is a catastrophe, a sign that a relationship must surely be over, for others a heated discussion is a way of letting off steam, a way of ensuring that... (more)
How to Overcome Premature Ejaculation.
This text discusses male sexual response and the cause of its disorders, and provides advice on leading a more normal sex life. (more)
Staying Together: From Crisis to Deeper Commitment: The Relate Guide
This guide offers advice on how to learn to come to terms with a failing relationship, assess whether it is worth saving, and how to overcome relationship difficulties. (more)
Bradshaw on: The Family: A Revolutionary Way of Self-Discovery
A revised self-help book to give readers insight on improving their families, their lives, and society at large. The "death of the family", (more)
The Relate Guide to Better Relationships: Practical Ways to Make Your Love Last From the Experts in Marriage Guidance
When I fall in love it will be forever...' or so goes the song. The reality can be different and the truth is that the nature of relationships will change over time. Few things can be more... (more)
Starting Again: How to Learn from the Past for a Better Future: The Relate Guide
One in three marriages today ends in divorce. When a relationship that you thought would last forever finishes it can feel like the end of the world. This book is designed to help people come to... (more)
Narcissism and intimacy: Love and marriage in the age of confusion
Uncovers narcissistic myths about marriage and love and explores what it means to be intimate in a culture that values autonomy. This book reveals the social and psychodynamic factors that lead to... (more)
Family of origin therapy and cultural diversity:
This text explores family of origin treatment, which looks at patterns and rules in a family which affect interactions within that family. These patterns are then unconsciously utilized throughout a... (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)
Home Truths about Domestic Violence: Feminist Influences on Policy and Practices: A Reader
This text draws on contributions from academics and professionals to examine the nature and extent of domestic violence, its effects upon children, social policy and the feminist viewpoint,... (more)
Falling in Love: Why we choose the lovers we choose (2nd Edition)
This work aims to show that we both consciously and unconsciously select those with whom we have intimate relationships. The mix of psychological research and clinical anecdotes discusses how... (more)
Couples in Conflict
This study investiates couple conflict, in both its damaging and constructive incarnations, with an eye to its effects on couples, their families, and the broader community. (more)
The Relational Trauma of Incest: An integrated family-based approach to treatment
This volume presents an innovative approach to navigating the painful confusions and dilemmas experienced by families in which incest has occurred. Integrating social constructionist, feminist, and... (more)
Mastering resistance: A practical guide for family therapy
Resistance - any attitude or behavior of the therapist, client or system that opposes change, is integral to every therapeutic relationship. Family therapists are all too familiar with challenges to... (more)
Engaging communication in conflict: systemic practice
Written from the authors' personal experience in conflict intervention and using a communication perspective, this work examines methods of private mediation, small group facilitation, system design,... (more)
Brief Therapy with Individuals and Couples
Brief Therapy Strategies with Individuals and Couples is a sourcebook that brings together in a single place all the most effective strategies and interventions - across orientations - for... (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)
Survival strategies for parenting children with bipolar disorder
This work contains innovative parenting and counselling techniques for helping children with bipolar disorder and the conditions that may occur with it. 236 pages. (more)
Parenting: What really counts?
The author considers whether it is necessary to have two parents and explores the psychological processes that underlie optimal development for children, particularly the quality of the child's... (more)
The therapist's use of self in family therapy: Countertransference in the therapist-family system
Therapists' effective use of self depends on their awareness of their countertransference. This book encourages clinicians who work with families to avail themselves of their unavoidable emotional... (more)
Learning to live with high functioning autism: A parent's guide for professionals
This book offers an insight into the world of autistic children, and the problems that they and their families face. It should provide support and encouragement for families of children with autism,... (more)