Clinical Casebook of Couple Therapy

by Gurman, Alan S.

• ISBN13: 9781606236765
• ISBN10: 1606236768
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-25
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

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 onto 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.

Author Biography

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 awards for Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Research from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, for Distinguished Achievement in Family Therapy Research from the American Family Therapy Academy, and for Distinguished Contributions to Family Psychology from the American Psychological Association. He received a national teaching award from the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers. A pioneer in the development of integrative approaches to couple therapy, Dr. Gurman maintains an active clinical practice in Madison, Wisconsin.

Table of Contents

The Evolving Clinical Practice of Couple Therapy	p. 1
Attunement, Disruption, and Repair: The Dance of Self and Other in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy	p. 21
Explanation and Description: An Integrative, Solution-Focused Case of Couple Therapy	p. 44
The North-Going Zax and the South-Going Zax: From Impasse to Empathic Acceptance in Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy	p. 67
Therapy with a Gay Male Couple: An Unlikely Multisystemic Integration	p. 90
A Clinical Format for Bowen Family Systems Therapy with Highly Reactive Couples	p. 112
A Good-Enough Therapy: An Object Relations Approach	p. 134
El Tigre, El Tigre: A Story of Narrative Practice	p. 153
Rewiring Emotional Habits: The Pragmatic/Experiential Method	p. 181
Relational Empowerment in Couple Therapy: An Integrative Approach	p. 208
Opening Steps: A Structural Approach to Working with Couples	p. 232
Self-Soothing and Other-Soothing in Emotion-Focused Therapy for Couples	p. 255
Searching for Mutuality: A Feminist/Multicultural Approach to Couple Therapy	p. 281
Getting Over a Rough Spot: A Short-Term, Problem-Focused Approach	p. 308
Building Intimacy Bridges: From the Marriage Checkup to Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy	p. 331
The Me Nobody Knows: Attachment Repair in Couple Therapy	p. 355
Creating Self-to-Self Intimacy: Internal Family Systems Therapy with Couples	p. 375
At the Risk of Losing Our Misery: Existential Couple Therapy	p. 399
Happily Ever After: A Couple Therapy from Three Perspectives	p. 427
Index	p. 441
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