Clinical Casebook of Couple Therapy

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.

Alan S. Gurman, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Family Therapy Training at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. He has edited and written many influential books. A past two-term editor of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy and former President of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Dr. Gurman has received numerous awards for his contributions to couple and family therapy, including the Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Research Award from the AAMFT, the Distinguished Achievement in Family Therapy Research Award from the AFTA, and the Distinguished Contribution to Family Psychology Award from the APA. A pioneer in the development of integrative approaches to couple therapy, Dr. Gurman maintains an active clinical practice in Madison, Wisconsin.

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. C\u00f3rdova 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