Clinical Casebook of Couple Therapy (eBook)

  Alan S. Gurman, PhD, until his death in 2013, was Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. A pioneer in the development of integrative approaches to couple therapy, he edited and wrote many influential books; was a past two-term editor of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy; and was former President of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. Dr. Gurman received numerous awards for his contributions to couple and family therapy, including the Distinguished Achievement in Family Therapy Research Award from the American Family Therapy Academy and the Distinguished Contribution to Family Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association. He also received the Award for Distinguished Achievement in Teaching and Training from the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers.  

1. The Evolving Clinical Practice of Couple Therapy, Alan S. Gurman2. Attunement, Disruption, and Repair: The Dance of Self and Other in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, P. Susan Hazlett3. Explanation and Description: An Integrative, Solution-Focused Case of Couple Therapy, Thorana S. Nelson4. The North-Going Zax and the South-Going Zax: From Impasse to Empathic Acceptance in Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy, Erika Lawrence and Rebecca L. Brock5. Therapy with a Gay Male Couple: An Unlikely Multisystemic Integration, David E. Greenan6. A Clinical Format for Bowen Family Systems Therapy with Highly Reactive Couples, Peter Titelman7. A Good-Enough Therapy: An Object Relations Approach, Judith P. Siegel8. El Tigre, El Tigre: A Story of Narrative Practice, Victoria C. Dickerson and Kathie Crocket9. Rewiring Emotional Habits: The Pragmatic/Experiential Method, Brent J. Atkinson10. Relational Empowerment in Couple Therapy: An Integrative Approach, Mona DeKoven Fishbane11. Opening Steps: A Structural Approach to Working with Couples, Douglas S. Rait12. Self-Soothing and Other-Soothing in Emotion-Focused Therapy for Couples, Rhonda N. Goldman and Leslie S. Greenberg13. Searching for Mutuality: A Feminist/Multicultural Approach to Couple Therapy, Sheila M. Addison and Volker Thomas14. Getting Over a Rough Spot: A Short-Term, Problem-Focused Approach, Sam R. Hamburg15. Building Intimacy Bridges: From the Marriage Checkup to Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy, Melinda Ippolito Morrill and James V. Córdova16. The Me Nobody Knows: Attachment Repair in Couple Therapy, Marion F. Solomon17. Creating Self-to-Self Intimacy: Internal Family Systems Therapy with Couples, Richard C. Schwartz and Adrian J. Blow18. At the Risk of Losing Our Misery: Existential Couple Therapy, Jerrold Lee Shapiro19. Happily Ever After: A Couple Therapy from Three Perspectives, David C. Treadway