About the Book
Vividly depicting the process of therapy, this instructive casebook presents in-depth illustrations of treatment based on the most important couple therapy models. An array of leading clinicians offer a window into how they work with clients grappling with mild and more serious clinical concerns, including conflicts surrounding intimacy, sex, power, and communication; parenting issues; and mental illness. Featuring couples of varying ages, cultural backgrounds, and sexual orientations, the cases shed light on both what works and what doesn't work when treating intimate partners. Each candid case presentation includes engaging comments and discussion questions from the editor. This book will be valuable for therapists and counselors who treat couples, including clinical psychologists, social workers, family therapists, psychiatrists, and pastoral counselors; clinical graduate students. It will also serve as a text in graduate-level courses such as marriage and family therapy, couples counseling, social work practice with families, conjoint therapy, relationship distress, and treating couples.
Table of Contents:
1. The Evolving Clinical Practice of Couple Therapy, Alan S. Gurman
2. Attunement, Disruption, and Repair: The Dance of Self and Other in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, P. Susan Hazlett
3. Explanation and Description: An Integrative, Solution-Focused Case of Couple Therapy, Thorana S. Nelson
4. The North-Going Zax and the South-Going Zax: From Impasse to Empathic Acceptance in Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy, Erika Lawrence and Rebecca L. Brock
5. Therapy with a Gay Male Couple: An Unlikely Multisystemic Integration, David E. Greenan
6. A Clinical Format for Bowen Family Systems Therapy with Highly Reactive Couples, Peter Titelman
7. A Good-Enough Therapy: An Object Relations Approach, Judith P. Siegel
8. El Tigre, El Tigre: A Story of Narrative Practice, Victoria C. Dickerson and Kathie Crocket
9. Rewiring Emotional Habits: The Pragmatic/Experiential Method, Brent J. Atkinson
10. Relational Empowerment in Couple Therapy: An Integrative Approach, Mona DeKoven Fishbane
11. Opening Steps: A Structural Approach to Working with Couples, Douglas S. Rait
12. Self-Soothing and Other-Soothing in Emotion-Focused Therapy for Couples, Rhonda N. Goldman and Leslie S. Greenberg
13. Searching for Mutuality: A Feminist/Multicultural Approach to Couple Therapy, Sheila M. Addison and Volker Thomas
14. Getting Over a Rough Spot: A Short-Term, Problem-Focused Approach, Sam R. Hamburg
15. Building Intimacy Bridges: From the Marriage Checkup to Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy, Melinda Ippolito Morrill and James V. Córdova
16. The Me Nobody Knows: Attachment Repair in Couple Therapy, Marion F. Solomon
17. Creating Self-to-Self Intimacy: Internal Family Systems Therapy with Couples, Richard C. Schwartz and Adrian J. Blow
18. At the Risk of Losing Our Misery: Existential Couple Therapy, Jerrold Lee Shapiro
19. Happily Ever After: A Couple Therapy from Three Perspectives, David C. Treadway
About the Author :
Edited by Alan S. Gurman, Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, USA
Review :
"This is a real blockbuster, with nineteen chapters and twenty-six authors...Clearly it should be on the shelf in any library of a training centre. It represents a very important compendium of knowledge." - John Rowan, ACP North London Magazine, February 2011, UK "This is the only recent couple therapy book I've seen that features a broad range of real cases presented by clinicians from a variety of orientations. It is wonderfully engaging. Whether you are new to couple therapy or are a seasoned clinician, this book will expand your understanding of what happens throughout the course of couple therapy, including both clinical successes and disappointments. Read this book - you will learn, be inspired, and gain an even greater appreciation of how the field of couple therapy has evolved." - Donald H. Baucom, Richard Simpson Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill, USA "Clinical Casebook of Couple Therapy would be an excellent companion to Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy in a graduate-level couple therapy class. The case examples do an outstanding job of putting 'meat' on the theoretical bones of the different approaches, permitting both a deeper understanding of each approach and consideration of similarities and differences across them. Students will get an inside view of the alternating challenges and breakthroughs that comprise the intricate dance of therapy." - Brian D. Doss, Department of Psychology, University of Miami, USA
