Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
A necessary discomfort: From individual to relationship work
Attachment and disenchantment: Why couples lose hope and seek help
What happens after the third session? The process of couple work
Facing difference, finding unity: How therapy groups begin
The power of the many: The group at work
Loyalties and disappointments: The nature of family relationships
'All those people in the room!': Getting started with families
Beyond blame and shame: Three levels of family work
Some principles of interpersonal intervention
References
Index

About the Author

Hugh Crago is Co-Editor of The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, and Senior Lecturer in Counselling at the University of Western Sydney. He studied English at the University of New England and Oxford, and subsequently Counselling Psychology at Antioch University in the US. He is the author of two previous books.