Patterns Of Infidelity And Their Treatment

Emily M. Brown, MSW, LCSW, is Director of the Key Bridge Therapy and Mediation Center in Arlington, Virginia.

Introduction

Section I: Patterns of InfidelityChapter 1: An Affair is a Family Issue
Chapter2: Types of Affairs and their Messages

SectionII: Critical Issues in Treatment
Chapter 3: Hiding, Telling, or Getting Caught: Issues in Revealing an Affair
Chapter 4: Disclosing the Affair
Chapter 5: Managing the Crisis
Chapter 6: Rebuilding for Conflict and Intimacy Avoiders
Chapter 7: Rebuilding for the Addictive Family
Chapter 8: Rebuilding and the Split Self Affair
Chapter 9: When the Marriage Ends with an Affair
Chapter 10: The Unmarried Third Party
Chapter 11: The Use of Group Treatment
Chapter12: Trust, Forgiveness, and Closure
Chapter 13: Children and Affairs: Issues and Interventions
Chapter 14: Affairs and Violence

Section III:Legacies: Our Clients' and Our Own
Chapter 15: Affairs, Divorce, and Remarriage
Chapter 16: Family Therapists, Family Patterns, Family Secrets, and Affairs

Appendix
Bibliography
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