Random House New Releases - Psychology & Psychiatry - Family Therapy

Making Peace with Your Parents by Leonard Felder, Ph.D.

2013-02-20T00:30:00-05:00

Making Peace with Your Parents
Written by Harold Bloomfield, M.D. and Leonard Felder, Ph.D.

eBook, 240 pages | Ballantine Books | Psychology & Psychiatry - Interpersonal Relations; Psychology & Psychiatry - Developmental Psychology; Psychology & Psychiatry - Family Therapy | $9.99 | 978-0-307-83226-9 (0-307-83226-0)

No matter how old you are and whether or not your parents are alive, you have to come to terms with them. This wise and practical book will show you how to deal with the most fundamental relationships in your life and, in the process, become the happy, creative, and fulfilled person you are meant to be.

Family Constellations by Bert Hellinger

2012-11-06T00:30:00-05:00

Family Constellations A Practical Guide to Uncovering the Origins of Family Conflict
Written by Joy Manne, Ph.D.
Foreword by Bert Hellinger

eBook, 80 pages | North Atlantic Books | Psychology & Psychiatry - Family Therapy; Family & Relationships - Family Relationships; Family & Relationships - Conflict Resolution | $9.95 | 978-1-58394-486-8 (1-58394-486-9)

Mapping out a “family constellation,” explains Dr. Joy Manné, encompasses exploring previous powerful life events from accidents to adoptions and accessing the deepest dynamics in that family system. This process helps us recognize and then resolve deeply seated family patterns. For example, in order to understand a person’s inability to trust, the family history of betrayal must be uncovered and released. These insights replace resentment with respect, pain with understanding.Dr. Manné uses the knowledge gained from her own practice as well as her educational experiences with Bert Hellinger, the founder of Family Constellations therapy, to clearly describe this technique. Most family constellation sessions are carried out in a group setting, with the facilitator first seeking clarity regarding the issue or problem the client has come to work out. Representatives are then chosen from among the group and the constellation is set up and worked in until it comes to resolution. This may be followed by a closing ritual and advice about how to integrate what the constellation has revealed. Through the use of real-life examples of family constellations, Dr. Manné makes this increasingly popular practice understandable and relatable.

Toward a Spiritual Psychotherapy by John B. Cobb, Jr.

2012-04-03T00:30:00-05:00

Toward a Spiritual Psychotherapy Soul as a Dimension of Experience
Written by Hunter Beaumont, Ph.D.
Foreword by John B. Cobb, Jr.

eBook, 232 pages | North Atlantic Books | Psychology & Psychiatry - Family Therapy; Family & Relationships - Family Relationships; Body, Mind & Spirit - Mental & Spiritual Healing | $12.95 | 978-1-58394-385-4 (1-58394-385-4)

Toward a Spiritual Psychotherapy collects a series of lectures presented by psychologist Hunter Beaumont over a 10-year period. Covering such themes as relationships, family, healing, grief, mourning, and death, the book features case stories that demonstrate clients’ healing experiences.

Practicing in Germany for the past 30 years, Hunter Beaumont has had the unique experience of working with World War II and Holocaust survivors and their descendants. Through this work he discovered that healing requires attending to the soul, a process he describes as an “inner ‘felt sense’ and common, everyday dimension of experience.” Demonstrating how therapists can integrate this more spiritual approach into their practices, Beaumont highlights the particular successes of the innovative family constellations therapy. Developed by German psychologist Bert Hellinger and expanded by Beaumont and others, this therapy takes place in a group setting, with group members standing in for family members or others involved in the client’s problem. A crucial part of Beaumont’s spiritual psychotherapy practice, this method has helped many of his clients release and resolve profound tensions, and offers hope to readers recovering from trauma or PTSD, or simply trying to navigate life’s difficulties.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Transformation through Intimacy, Revised Edition by Robert Augustus Masters, Ph.D.

2012-03-06T00:30:00-05:00

Transformation through Intimacy, Revised Edition The Journey toward Awakened Monogamy
Written by Robert Augustus Masters, Ph.D.

eBook, 304 pages | North Atlantic Books | Body, Mind & Spirit - Personal Transformation; Self-Help - Personal Growth; Psychology & Psychiatry - Family Therapy | $12.95 | 978-1-58394-388-5 (1-58394-388-9)

Intimate relationship has long been viewed and lived as a lesser alternative to spiritual life. More recently, the need to integrate our spiritual and intimate lives, rather than maintaining separate spheres and relationships on autopilot, has become increasingly apparent. Given the high rates of infidelity and divorce, it would seem that the possibilities of freedom through intimacy have not been explored in much depth. Too often we pull away when relationships become difficult, missing out on the rewards of connecting more profoundly.

The passage from immature to mature monogamy is not only a journey of ripening intimacy with a partner, but also a journey into and through zones of ourselves that may be very difficult to accept and integrate with the rest of our being. Transformation through Intimacy explores intimate relationships through a four-stage lens: me-centered, we-centered codependent, we-centered coindependent, and being-centered. Bringing his many years of experience as a psychotherapist and spiritual practitioner to the subject, Masters shows readers not only how to navigate the thickets of reactivity, conflict, shame, anger, fear, and doubt, but how to understand them in a new light so that a deeper level of relating to oneself and one’s partner becomes possible, opening new levels of trust, commitment, and love.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Transformation through Intimacy, Revised Edition by Robert Augustus Masters, Ph.D.

2012-03-06T00:30:00-05:00

Transformation through Intimacy, Revised Edition The Journey toward Awakened Monogamy
Written by Robert Augustus Masters, Ph.D.

Trade Paperback, 304 pages | North Atlantic Books | Body, Mind & Spirit - Personal Transformation; Self-Help - Personal Growth; Psychology & Psychiatry - Family Therapy | $17.95 | 978-1-58394-366-3 (1-58394-366-8)

Intimate Partners by Maggie Scarf

2010-12-15T00:30:00-05:00

Intimate Partners Patterns in Love and Marriage
Written by Maggie Scarf

eBook | Ballantine Books | Psychology & Psychiatry - Interpersonal Relations; Psychology & Psychiatry - Family Therapy; Psychology & Psychiatry - Emotions | $13.99 | 978-0-307-77503-0 (0-307-77503-8)

“Anyone involved in, embarking on, or yearning for, an intimate relationship should buy, borrow or steal Intimate Partners.”
–New Woman

What goes on in our intimate attachments? What patterns of relationships do couples tend to follow, and why? The bonds we create affect every aspect of our lives, and yet our grasp of them is limited by our emotional reactions and learned responses. Now, in Intimate Partners, bestselling author Maggie Scarf gives us the classic book on marriage–on how love relationships are formed and how they change over the course of the marital cycle. Here you’ll discover

• how to understand one’s inherited emotional history–and how fits with a partner’s
• the fascinating ways in which power and control, and intimacy and autonomy exert strong effects upon the kind of partnership two people create
• surprising observations on the role of sex and the impact of children on marriage
• why change can be experienced as a form of betrayal–and how to ensure that a relationship matures with, and is not impeded by, each individual’s growth
• simple exercises that couples can do to resolve tensions and change the nature of the world they share

• verbal and physical techniques to cope with sexual difficulties and enliven a couple’s connection during sex
• straightforward methods for how to engage in healthy–not dysfunctional–quarrels

Intimate Partners is a book that changes not only how we view love relationships, but also how we live them.

“Every marriage contains a story, and it begins long before the wedding, Maggie Scarf tells us in her ambitious, thought-provoking . . . ultimately compelling study. . . . Read it and feel consoled.”
–USA Today

“Listen to Maggie Scarf . . . and you’ll come away thinking that yes, marriage can be tough, living long-term with another person is one of the greatest challenges there is, but it’s well worth the effort.”
–Chicago Tribune

“Provocative . . . Scarf writes lucidly and convincingly.”
–The Washington Post Book World

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Family Constellations by Bert Hellinger

2009-09-22T00:30:00-05:00

Family Constellations A Practical Guide to Uncovering the Origins of Family Conflict
Written by Joy Manne, Ph.D.
Foreword by Bert Hellinger

Trade Paperback, 80 pages | North Atlantic Books | Psychology & Psychiatry - Family Therapy; Family & Relationships - Family Relationships; Family & Relationships - Conflict Resolution | $12.95 | 978-1-55643-832-5 (1-55643-832-X)

Power of the Middle Ground by Marty Babits

2008-10-21T00:30:00-05:00

Power of the Middle Ground A Couple's Guide to Renewing Your Relationship
Written by Marty Babits

Trade Paperback, 263 pages | Prometheus Books | Psychology & Psychiatry - Family Therapy; Family & Relationships - Love & Romance; Self Help - Happiness | $17.99 | 978-1-59102-662-4 (1-59102-662-8)

The Power of the Middle Ground explains–as no other self-help book does–why and how the inherent difficulties entailed in the change process itself are daunting. Author Marty Babits, a seasoned couples therapist and educator, explains strategies and provides tips for grappling successfully with the challenges that change presents. This key aspect of working through relationship difficulties has, until now, been given short shrift in the popular and academic literature. Despite the central place of divorce in our culture, he teaches couples how to achieve a much greater impact in solving difficult interpersonal problems than is often thought possible.
Babits helps couples envision a place that brings their potential for love and compassion alive. This place, which neither partner can dominate and in which each learns to approach problems productively, he calls the "middle ground." Through a series of exercises, he equips couples to appreciate and actualize what is positive and possible in their relationship.
This encouraging, yet realistic book empowers partners to negotiate differences, emphasize the positive, see issues from each other’s point of view, defuse anger, and, as a result, rekindle warmth and love.

Family Estrangements by Barbara LeBey

2003-01-01T00:30:00-05:00

Family Estrangements How They Begin, How to Mend Them, How to Cope with Them
Written by Barbara LeBey

Trade Paperback, 288 pages | Bantam | Psychology & Psychiatry - Family Therapy | $11.95 | 978-0-553-38196-2 (0-553-38196-2)

Mending the Ties That Bind

Divorce; disputes over inheritances, family business, or elder care. Rifts over marriage partners, career choices, or sexual orientation--these are just some of the many ways that even close families can break apart. Yet this all-too-common and often devastating family problem, and its emotional fallout, has gone virtually unaddressed…until now.

In this remarkable book, Barbara LeBey, an Atlanta attorney and former judge, who herself suffered and resolved a family estrangement, shares the stories of people from every walk of life and of every age and race, to show how such rifts often begin and how they can usually be resolved.

Working closely with two family therapists, LeBey offers a set of tested guidelines to help you approach alienated or angry family members, deal with your own issues, and mend your broken family relationships--even if you think it may already be too late.
Compassionate, practical, and full of rich insight, this book is a beacon of hope and healing to which families everywhere will turn again and again.

Completing Distinctions by Douglas G. Flemons

2001-05-01T00:30:00-05:00

Completing Distinctions Interweaving the Ideas of Gregory Bateson and Taoism into a unique approach to therapy
Written by Douglas G. Flemons

Trade Paperback, 184 pages | Shambhala | Psychology & Psychiatry - Family Therapy | $20.00 | 978-1-57062-669-2 (1-57062-669-3)

Completing Distinctions develops a new way of thinking about the connection between problems and solutions for family and systems therapists. The author suggests that addiction and other social and ecological dilemmas stem from the belief that distinctions such as hate and love, sickness and health, or problem and solution are irreconcilable oppositions. Flemons shows how much separations can be completed so that genuine healing can occur in individuals, families, organizations, and ecologies. Written in a playful style, the book includes short client-therapist dialogues that illustrate the author's approach.

Making Peace with Your Parents by Leonard Felder, Ph.D.

1996-09-29T00:30:00-05:00

Making Peace with Your Parents
Written by Harold Bloomfield, M.D. and Leonard Felder, Ph.D.

Trade Paperback, 240 pages | Ballantine Books | Psychology & Psychiatry - Interpersonal Relations; Psychology & Psychiatry - Developmental Psychology; Psychology & Psychiatry - Family Therapy | $14.00 | 978-0-345-41047-4 (0-345-41047-5)

Random House New Releases - Psychology & Psychiatry - Family Therapy

Making Peace with Your Parents by Leonard Felder, Ph.D.

Making Peace with Your Parents Written by Harold Bloomfield, M.D. and Leonard Felder, Ph.D.

Family Constellations by Bert Hellinger

Family Constellations A Practical Guide to Uncovering the Origins of Family ConflictWritten by Joy Manne, Ph.D. Foreword by Bert Hellinger

Toward a Spiritual Psychotherapy by John B. Cobb, Jr.

Toward a Spiritual Psychotherapy Soul as a Dimension of ExperienceWritten by Hunter Beaumont, Ph.D. Foreword by John B. Cobb, Jr.

Transformation through Intimacy, Revised Edition by Robert Augustus Masters, Ph.D.

Transformation through Intimacy, Revised Edition The Journey toward Awakened MonogamyWritten by Robert Augustus Masters, Ph.D.

Transformation through Intimacy, Revised Edition by Robert Augustus Masters, Ph.D.

Transformation through Intimacy, Revised Edition The Journey toward Awakened MonogamyWritten by Robert Augustus Masters, Ph.D.

Intimate Partners by Maggie Scarf

Intimate Partners Patterns in Love and MarriageWritten by Maggie Scarf

Family Constellations by Bert Hellinger

Family Constellations A Practical Guide to Uncovering the Origins of Family ConflictWritten by Joy Manne, Ph.D. Foreword by Bert Hellinger

Power of the Middle Ground by Marty Babits

Power of the Middle Ground A Couple's Guide to Renewing Your RelationshipWritten by Marty Babits

Family Estrangements by Barbara LeBey

Family Estrangements How They Begin, How to Mend Them, How to Cope with ThemWritten by Barbara LeBey

Completing Distinctions by Douglas G. Flemons

Completing Distinctions Interweaving the Ideas of Gregory Bateson and Taoism into a unique approach to therapyWritten by Douglas G. Flemons

Making Peace with Your Parents by Leonard Felder, Ph.D.

Making Peace with Your Parents Written by Harold Bloomfield, M.D. and Leonard Felder, Ph.D.

Making Peace with Your Parents
Written by Harold Bloomfield, M.D. and Leonard Felder, Ph.D.

Family Constellations A Practical Guide to Uncovering the Origins of Family Conflict
Written by Joy Manne, Ph.D.
Foreword by Bert Hellinger

Toward a Spiritual Psychotherapy Soul as a Dimension of Experience
Written by Hunter Beaumont, Ph.D.
Foreword by John B. Cobb, Jr.

Transformation through Intimacy, Revised Edition The Journey toward Awakened Monogamy
Written by Robert Augustus Masters, Ph.D.

Transformation through Intimacy, Revised Edition The Journey toward Awakened Monogamy
Written by Robert Augustus Masters, Ph.D.

Intimate Partners Patterns in Love and Marriage
Written by Maggie Scarf

Family Constellations A Practical Guide to Uncovering the Origins of Family Conflict
Written by Joy Manne, Ph.D.
Foreword by Bert Hellinger

Power of the Middle Ground A Couple's Guide to Renewing Your Relationship
Written by Marty Babits

Family Estrangements How They Begin, How to Mend Them, How to Cope with Them
Written by Barbara LeBey

Completing Distinctions Interweaving the Ideas of Gregory Bateson and Taoism into a unique approach to therapy
Written by Douglas G. Flemons

Making Peace with Your Parents
Written by Harold Bloomfield, M.D. and Leonard Felder, Ph.D.