Edited by
James M Donovan, PhD
This unique guide brings together representatives of the major family therapy approaches to demonstrate the nuts and bolts of their brief work with couples. The time- and cost-effective models discussed are explicitly short-term — not long-term on fast forward — and detailed case excerpts and clinical examples highlight how each form of therapy is actually conducted. Noted contributors include Susan Johnson, Philip Guerin, Michael Nichols and Salvador Minuchin, Simon Budman, Andrew Christensen and Neil Jacobson, James Keim, and many others.
James M. Donovan, PhD, has served as staff psychologist at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates for over 25 years. Dr. Donovan is founder and codirector of the Mental Healthy Fellowship at Harvard Vanguard and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in Psychology at Harvard Medical School.
| 1. | Describe the triangle of conflict and explain its application in couple therapy. |
| 2. | Distinguish between "transference” and "passive-into-active” testing of the therapist. |
| 3. | Describe the conceptual approach that combines psychoanalysis and systems theory into a short-term couple therapy. |
| 4. | Explain session-by-session integrative couple therapy. |
| 5. | Describe the process of time-effective; solution-focused approach to couple’s therapy. |
| 1. | Short-Term Couple Therapy and the Principles of Brief Treatment
James M. Donovan |
| PART I: PSYCHODYNAMIC METHODS | |
| 2. | Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Straight to the Heart Susan M. Johnson |
| 3. | Short-Term Couples Group Psychotherapy: A Tale of Four Fights
James M. Donovan |
| 4. | A Control Mastery Approach to Short-Term Couple Therapy Richard Vogel |
| PART II: THE SYSTEMIC APPROACH | |
| 5. | Brief Marital Therapy: The Story of the Triangles Philip J. Guerin, Jr., Leo F. Fay, Thomas F. Fogarty, and Judith G. Kautto |
| 6. | Short-Term Structural Family Therapy with Couples Michael P. Nichols and Salvador Minuchin |
| 7. | Psychoanalytically Informed Short- Term Couple Therapy Phyllis Cohen |
| 8. | Time-Effective Couple Therapy Simon H. Budman |
| PART III: COLLABORATIVE MODELS | |
| 9. | Collaborative Couple Therapy Daniel B. Wile |
| 10. | Integrative Couple Therapy: The Dyadic Relationship of
Acceptance and Change Erika Lawrence, Kathleen Eldridge, Andrew Christensen, and Neil S. Jacobson |
| PART IV: THE POST MODERN SCHOOLS | |
| 11. | Brief Strategic Martial Therapy James Keim |
| 12. | Narrative Solutions in Brief Couple Therapy Joseph B. Eron and Thomas W. Lund |
| 13. | A Time-Effective, Solution- Focused Approach to Couple Therapy
Steven Friedman and Eve Lipchik |
| 14. | Couples, Culture, and Discourse: A Narrative Approach John H. Neal, Jeffrey L. Zimmerman, and Victoria C. Dickerson |
| 15. | Short-Term Couple Therapy: The Present and the Future James M. Donovan |
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