A keen observer of couples’ interactions, Judith Brown captures with warmth and humor how the characters in these age-old folk-tales create their predicaments — for better or for worse. She points out the repetitious interactions: the ogre’s “fee fie foe fum” in Jack and the Beanstalk;” the fisherman’s insatiable wife demanding more and more; the […]
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The knots in which troubled couples find themselves, from hurt feelings to entrenched defensiveness, blaming, and stonewalling, are often bewildering, disorienting, and painful, both to the couples themselves and to those who attempt to help them. These knots defy the depth of caring and importance intimate partners feel for one another and are resistant to […]
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Couples therapy has long been regarded as one of the most demanding of all forms of psychotherapy because of the way it challenges therapists to combine insights of dynamic psychology with the power and clarity of systems dynamics. In this exciting new volume, Gordon Wheeler and Stephanie Backman, couples therapists with broad training and long […]
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In Search of Good Form, the long awaited sequel to Joseph Zinker’s path-breaking and classic bestseller, Creative Process in Gestalt Therapy, is an exciting and practical guide to Gestalt work with couples and families. “This is a rich and generous book. It is full of wisdom without being pushy, humane without being maudlin, instructive without […]
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