Outlining the essential principles and practices of couple counselling, this book demystifies this form of therapy by providing a step-by-step guide from the first meeting through to subsequent sessions.
Creating and sustaining a vibrant relationship is one of the most difficult challenges we come across in our lives. But when we do succeed, it is the source of a truly deep and lasting happiness. To succeed, we need some tools to help us on our way. The subject of this book is t…
Creating and sustaining a vibrant relationship is one of the most difficult challenges we come across in our lives. But when we do succeed, it is the source of a truly deep and lasting happiness. To succeed, we need some tools to help us on our way. The subject of this book is t…
This title consists of a diverse series of contributions and reflections on couples and the Oedipus complex from leading psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in the couples field. All contributors base their theories on a contemporary Kleinian/object-relations psychoanalytic view…
People with troubled childhoods often struggle in adult intimate relationships later in life. By repeating patterns of interaction learned and absorbed as children, they unwittingly create overwhelming obstacles in their attempts to love and be loved. Forging a new and healthful…
The functional dialectic system approach to therapy has been widely embraced and is now used internationally, with individuals and couples as well as with families. It differs substantially from the common psychotherapeutic models that have prevailed in the West for more than a …