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)
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 the Reflecting Process
'The passion to continually be on the move to seek new understanding is a characteristic of the field of family therapy and systemic thinking over the last forty years. Many professionals have moved... (more)
Treating Parent-Infant Relationship Problems: Strategies for Intervention
Within a developmental framework, this book guides the clinician to understand the different types of problems that parents have with infants and to determine how a given family might best be served.... (more)
The Space Between: Experience, Context, and Process in the Therapeutic Relationship
The papers in this book focus on many different aspects of the therapeutic relationship, including the self of the therapist, working cross-culturally and with language difference, impasse, risk... (more)
Exploring the Unsaid: Creativity, Risks and Dilemmas in Working Cross-Culturally
The editors and contributing authors of this volume have taken a truly pioneering and courageously challenging look at the state of cross-cultural theory and practice. In confronting directly and... (more)
Perspectives on Supervision
This reader-friendly and stimulating volume, indispensable to anyone interested in supervision from a systemic perspective, emerged from a conference organised jointly by the Institute of Family... (more)
The Importance of Fathers: A Psychoanalytic Re-Evaluation
It is widely acknowledged that children need structure, security, stability and attachment to develop and flourish. However, many changes have occurred in society which have changed the traditional... (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)
Death Talk: Conversations with Children and Families
This book tackles head on the often tabooed subject of death. It distils sophisticated clinical work into simple language, and describes simple techniques for talking to children about dying. The... (more)
Mothering and ambivalence
This text brings together authors from therapeutic, academic and social work backgrounds to discuss dependency, anxiety and gender relations within families. Drawing on professional experience the... (more)
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)
Trauma-Organized Systems: Physical and Sexual Abuse in Families
This book is about the experience of individuals who have been abused or who have abused others, but it also traces the way an abusive experience can organize a family or professional system so that... (more)
Family Therapy: First Steps Towards a Systemic Approach
This book introduces a range of concepts, skills, and applications from a systemic approach to the rapidly expanding field of family therapy. (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)
Performance-Based Family Therapy: A Therapist's Guide to Measurable Change
In this groundbreaking book, Charles Fishman uniquely incorporates and develops results-based accountability (RBA) into the framework of structural family therapy.
Collaborating with the... (more)
Parenthood and Immigration in Psychoanalysis: Shaping the Therapeutic Setting
This book presents a comprehensive overview of psychoanalytic work with immigrant mothers, fathers, and their children, combining clinical examples and contemporary research to explore ways in which... (more)
Systemic Therapy and Attachment Narratives: Applications in a Range of Clinical Settings
Systemic Therapy and Attachment Narratives explores how attachment-based ideas can be used in clinical practice by offering a practical and sophisticated exposition of clinical approaches. ... (more)
Handbook of LGBTQ-Affirmative Couple and Family Therapy
This comprehensive second edition inspires therapists to utilize clinical work to pragmatically address intersectional oppressions, lessen the burden of minority stress, and implement effective LGBTQ... (more)
Marriage and Family in Modern China: A Psychoanalytic Exploration
Marriage and Family in Modern China is a groundbreaking psychoanalytic examination of how 70 years of widespread social change have transformed the intimacies of life in modern China.
The book... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal: Volume 11 Number 1 – Special Issue: Separation and Divorce
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)
Growing up again - Parenting ourselves, parenting our children
Second edition. 310 pages. (more)
Incestuous families: An ecological approach to understanding and treatment
This text argues that incestuous behaviour can only be fully understood with reference to its 'ecology'. Its approach focuses on rebalancing the intrapsychic dynamics of individual family members, as... (more)
The Illusion of Love: Why the Battered Woman Returns to her Abuser
Why do many men assault the woman they love, and why do battered women return for more abuse? This text examines the basic attraction between abuser and victim which results in disorders and... (more)
Treating Relationship Distress and Psychopathology in Couples: A Cognitive-Behavioural Approach
Close relationships and mental health are two key ingredients to living a meaningful, fulfilled life. These two domains are the central focus of Treating Relationship Distress and Psychopathology in... (more)
Psychoanalytic Work with Families and Couples: Clinical Perspectives on Suffering
Psychoanalytic Work with Families and Couples rethinks the ways in which conflicts present today in psychoanalytic consulting rooms and the nature of suffering in family, couple, and sibling... (more)
Working with Attachment in Couples Therapy: A Four-Step Model for Clinical Practice
Through an exploration of extensive case studies, this book demonstrates how the discovery and examination of original childhood attachment wounds is crucial to couple therapy. As many as half of all... (more)
Case Studies in Couple and Family Therapy: Through the Lens of Early Career Professionals
Case Studies in Couple and Family Therapy is one of the first casebooks to have been written from the perspective of the early career therapist and demonstrates how key issues in therapy occur for... (more)
Understanding and Managing Parental Alienation: A Guide to Assessment and Intervention
In Understanding and Managing Parental Alienation: A Guide to Assessment and Intervention, Janet Haines, Mandy Matthewson and Marcus Turnbull offer a comprehensive analysis of contemporary... (more)
How to Talk to a
Bringing to light new developments in the treatment of marital conflict, this second edition of How to Talk to a Narcissist addresses the ever-changing faces and phases of narcissism within the... (more)