Handbook of Structured Techniques in Marriage and Family Therapy

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:06:08 +0000

“Handbook of Structured Techniques in Marriage and Family Therapy”.

Authors: Robert Sherman & Norman Fredman.

ISBN: 0-87630-424-2

In couple therapy it’s important that the couple be encouraged and assisted in coming up with their own perturbing solutions to their restricting relationship problems. The therapist “prescribing” courses of action may be helpful, but without the couple’s own investment in their own recovery, prescriptive advice can become like school homework: it has to be done (or avoided) rather than the couple wanting to do it. Some couples struggle to be creative, though. Having behaved how they believed they should have been doing (some for decades), being invited to do something different will be a struggle.

In this book – the authors describe excercises that may give the couple inspiration about what they might invent for themselves.

Each excerise takes the following format:-

A theoretical base (eg Rationale)
An overview of the exercise.
A description of the procedure (how to do the exercise)
An example.
Suggested uses – where this exercise might help
A brief bibliography of resources that cover this exercise.

There are 59 in total.

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Psychoanalytic Therapy & The Gay Man.

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:22:28 +0000

“Psychoanalytic Therapy & The Gay Man”.

Author: Jack Drescher, M.D.

ISBN: 0-88163-208-2

Jack Descher is a gay man – and a psychoanalyst. There was a time when gay men were not allowed to be psychoanalysts because being gay was considered as a mental illness. Drescher has gathered a lot of information regarding the analytic therapy of gay men and writing as a gay psychoanalyst the book comes across as helpful, friendly and useful.

This was one of the first books we studied regarding therapy and gay men.

View Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man on Amazon.co.uk

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Handbook of Structured Techniques in Marriage and Family Therapy