First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Contents:
Luquet, Hannah, Preface. Luquet, Introduction: The Relational Paradigm. Fein, Attachment Wounded Couples. Luquet, Chadwick, Exploratory Wounded Couples. Brainert, Identity Wounded Couples. Hannah, Competency Wounded Couples. Weiser, Thompson, Afro-American Couples. Bain, Hispanic Couples. Kollman, Gay and Lesbian Couples. Kleinberg, Zorn, Community Mirroring in Gay and Lesbian Couples. Vachon, HIV and Gay Couples. Ritz, HIV and Heterosexual Couples. Kelly, Luquet, Attention Deficit Disorder and Couples. Wood, Addictions, Couples and Recovery. Bernell, Sexuality and Couples. Eaker-Weil, Affairs and Couples. Bailey, Spirituality and Couples.

For more than a decade, Short-Term Couples Therapy: The Imago Model in Action has been used regularly by therapists interested in this effective and now well-known model of working with couples. Building on the precepts of the Imago Relationship Therapy Model, as introduced in the pioneering work of Dr. Harville Hendrix, the book has made available to the professional therapist the technique and rationale of this evolutionary approach to working with couples in a brief therapy context. Now thoroughly revised and updated, Short-Term Couples Therapy offers a user-friendly, six-session format, laid out clearly and cogently, whose potential for application is immediately apparent. The essence of the Imago Model is distilled into a practical, workable methodology. The text presents a unique reality-based approach to facilitate effective couple interaction, updates the processes and theory that have proven so effective in the short-term approach to couples therapy, and incorporates the major advances in the practice of Imago Relationship Therapy.

Imago Relationship Therapy

It's been more than three decades since Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt--the best-selling authors of Getting the Love You Want and Keeping the Love You Find--created Imago Relationship Therapy. Their concept of the "conscious marriage" introduced a new paradigm for understanding the dynamics of couples. Since that time more than two thousand clinicians in twenty-eight countries have adopted and implemented this highly effective form of couples therapy.

This groundbreaking book offers an overview of the highly successful Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT) and the relationship of IRT with preceding schools of thought such as psychoanalytic theory, family systems theories, affect theory, and self-psychology. At the heart of IRT is a three-step process involving mirroring (reflecting) the partner's feelings, validating the partner's point of view, and expressing empathy toward the partner's feelings. Imago Relationship Therapy traces IRT's history and explosive growth and outlines the differences and similarities between Imago theory and other models of couples therapy. The book also presents some of the ideas of prominent Imago thinkers, such as the central role of connectivity and the problem of envy in committed relationships.

"A uniquely important book for the practitioner, which provides clinical wisdom and a rare look into the heart and soul of Imago Relationship Therapy."
--Pat Love, Ed.D., author, The Truth About Love

For more than a decade, Short-Term Couples Therapy: The Imago Model in Action has been used regularly by therapists interested in this effective and now well-known model of working with couples. Building on the precepts of the Imago Relationship Therapy Model, as introduced in the pioneering work of Dr. Harville Hendrix, the book has made available to the professional therapist the technique and rationale of this evolutionary approach to working with couples in a brief therapy context. Now thoroughly revised and updated, Short-Term Couples Therapy offers a user-friendly, six-session format, laid out clearly and cogently, whose potential for application is immediately apparent. The essence of the Imago Model is distilled into a practical, workable methodology. The text presents a unique reality-based approach to facilitate effective couple interaction, updates the processes and theory that have proven so effective in the short-term approach to couples therapy, and incorporates the major advances in the practice of Imago Relationship Therapy.