Book Reviews

Sue Walrond-Skinner (Ed.), Family and Marital Psychotherapy—A Critical Approach
Emily and John Visher, Stepfamilies: A Guide to Working with Step-parents and Step-children
J. P. Forgas, Social Episodes: A Study of Interaction Routines
Michael Lewis and Leonard A. Rosenblum (Eds), The Child and His Family, Series: Genesis of Behaviour
Robert E. Grinder, Adolescence
Maurizio Andolfi, Family Therapy. An Interactional Approach     

Book reviews

David Campbell and Rosalind Draper (Eds), Applications of Systemic Family Therapy. The Milan Approach
Bryan Lask, Children's Problems
Bretherton, Inge and Waters, Everett (Eds), Growing Points of Attachment Theory and Research
Christine Sandford and Wyn Beardsley, Making Relationships Work
Elaine Campbell, The Childless Marriage: An Exploratory Study of Couples Who Do Not Want Children
Kayla F. Bernheim and Anthony F. Lehman, Working with Families of the Mentally III
Geoffrey Barlow and Alison Hill (Eds), Video Violence and Children
David H. Olson and Roxanne Markoff (Eds), Inventory of Marriage and Family Literature , Vol. XI 1984
Steve de Shazer, Keys to Solution in Brief Therapy
Fortune Ann E. and contributors, Task-Centered Practice with Families and Groups
Adrian L. James and Kate Wilson, Couples, Conflict and Change
Sue Walrond-Skinner, A Dictionary of Psychotherapy
Nossrat Peseschkian, Positive Family Therapy–The Family as Therapist
Joan J. Zilbah, Young Children in Family Therapy
Tesse and Moshe Lang, Corrupting the Young and Other Stories of a Family Therapist
S. Slipp, Object Relations: A Dynamic Bridge Between Individual and Family Treatment
Philip Barker, Basic Family Therapy
J. Tunnard (Ed.), Promoting Links: Keeping Children and Families in Touch     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Lineaments of Mind . John Cohen. Oxford and San Francisco. W.H. Freeman and Company. Cognition, Development and Instruction . John R. Kirby and John B. Biggs (Eds.) The Art and Science of Visual Illusions . Nicholas Wade. London. Routledge and Kegan Paul. Child Language . Alison Elliot. Children's Oral Communication Skills . W. Patrick Dickson (Ed.). The Language of Children Reared in Poverty: Implications for Evaluation and Intervention . Lynn Feagans and Dale Clark Farran (Eds.). Fairness in Children . Michael Siegal. The Origins of Logic (Six to Twelve Months) . Jonas Langer. Are Young Children Egocentric? M.V. Cox (Ed.). Mainstreaming of Children in Schools: Research and Programmatic Issues . Phillip S. Strain and Mary M. Kerr. The Perception of Pictures, Vol. 1. Alberti's Window . Margaret A. Hagen (Ed.) Psychopathology and Subfecundity . Joseph A. McFalls. Medical Psychology: Contributions to Behavioral Medicine . Charles K. Prokof and Lawrence A. Bradley (Eds.). The Substance Abuse Problems . Sidney Cohen. Family Mental Health: Theory and Practice . Rae Sedgwick. St. Louis, Missouri. C.V. Mosby. Handbook of Family Therapy . Alan S. Gurman and David P. Kniskern (Eds.)     

Book reviews

Jeffrey K. Zeig, Experiencing Erickson: An Introduction to the Man and his Work David Will and Robert M. Wrate, Integrated Family Therapy, a Problem-centred Psycho-dynamic Approach Sandra B. Coleman (Ed.), Failures in Family Therapy John B. Burnham, Family Therapy: First Steps Towards a Systemic Approach Stephen R. Lankton and Carol H. Lankton, Enchantment and Intervention in Family Therapy. Training in Eriksonian Approaches Rochdale Health Visitors, Child Abuse: Are You Safe? Colin Murray Parkes and Dora Black (Journal Eds), Bereavement Care John Howard and Graham Shepherd (Eds), Conciliation, Children and Divorce. A Family Systems Approach P. Watchtel and E. Watchtel, Family Dynamics in Individual Psychotherapy Joy K. Rice and David G. Rice, Living Through Divorce: A Developmental Approach to Divorce Therapy Larry L. Constantine, Family Paradigms. The Practice of Theory in Family Therapy Robert N. Rapoport (Ed.), Children, Youth, and Families: The Action-Research Relationship     

Book reviews

J. M. Lewis and J. G. Looney, The Long Struggle: Well-functioning Working-class Black Families
Jane Rowe, Yours by Choice, A Guide for Adoptive Parents
Richard F. Dangel and Richard A. Polster (Eds), Parent Training: Foundations of Research and Practice
Oded Manor (Ed.), Family Work in Action—A Handbook for Social Workers
Ruth Porter (Ed.), Child Sexual Abuse within the Family
Jacqueline Burgoyne and David Clark, Making-a-Go-of-It: A Study of Step-families in Sheffield
Christopher F. Clulow, Marital Therapy: An Inside View     

Book reviews

Edward Kaufman (Ed.), Power to Change: Family Case Studies in the Treatment of Alcoholism .
Ellen Bass and Louise Thornton (Eds), I Never Told Anyone—Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Salvador Minuchin, Family Kaleidoscope
Booklets
'Streetproofing' booklets:
J. Waters, M. Davies, P. Dale, T. Morrison and W. Roberts, Child Abuse , 24pp. Price 80p. Child Sexual Abuse
Permanent Substitute Families– Security or Severance
Yvonne Sinclair, Transvestism Within a Partnership of Marriage and Families     

REVIEWS

VIEW FROM WITHIN: PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AS A SOURCE OF THEORY AND SCHOLARSHIP
Latina Realities: Essays on Healing, Migration, and Sexuality , O ljva M. E spin .
CULTURAL DIVERSITY AMONG LESBIANS AND GAY MEN: VIEWS THROUGH THE KALEIDOSCOPE
Ethnic and Cultural Diversity Among Lesbians and Gay Men , B everly G reene (Ed.).
Growing Up in a Lesbian Family: Effects on Child Development , F iona L. T asker and S usan G olombok .
TRYING TO TURN DICHOTOMY INTO CONTINUITY: EXPLORATIONS OF MOTHERHOOD
Representations of Motherhood , D onna B assin , M argaret H oney , and M eryle M ahrer K aplan (Eds.).
The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood , S haron H ays .
EQUALITY AND THE FAMILY: PUTTING THEORY INTO PRACTICE
Marital Equality: Its Relationship to the Well-Being of Husbands and Wives , J anice M. S teil .
Heterosexual Women Changing the Family: Refusing to Be a 'Wife'! , J o V an E very .
LIFE-TIES AND SELF-ESTEEM: SURVEY AND INTERVIEWS
Gender, Identity, and Self-Esteem: A New Look at Adult Development , D eborah Y. A nderson and C hristopher L. H ayes .
FEMINIST THERAPY REVISITED
Couples Therapy: Feminist Perspectives , M arcia H ill and E sther D. R othblum (Eds.).
Feminist Perspectives in Therapy: An Empowerment Model for Women , J udith W orell and P am R emer .     

Book reviews

Alan S. Gurman and David P. Kniskern (eds), The Handbook of Family Therapy, volume II
Joseph Nowinski, Substance Abuse in Adolescents and Young Adults
Constance Hammen, Depression Runs in Families: The Social Context of Risk and Resilience in Children of Depressed Mothers
Robert Sherman, Paul Oresky and Yvonne Rountree, Solving Problems in Couples and Family Therapy: Techniques and Tactics     

Book reviews

Rose Bromwich, Working with Parents and Infants, an Interactional Approach
Bertram J. Cohler and Henry U. Grunebaum, Mothers, Grandmothers and Daughters: Personality and Child Care in Three Generation Families
Jack Dominian, Marital Pathology
Jerry Edelwich and Archie Brodsky, Burnt Out—Stages of Disillusionment in the Helping Professions
Helen Featherstone, A Difference in the Family
I. D. Click and D. R. Kessler, Marital and Family Therapy
J. Haley, Leaving Home
Charles K. Hofling and Jerry Lewis (Eds), The Family—Evaluation and Treatment
Neil S. Jacobsen and Gayla Margolin, Marital Therapy: Strategies based on Social Learning and Behaviour Exchange Principles
William M. Walsh, A Primer in Family Therapy     

Reviews

E dinger , E dward P. Encounter with the Self: a Jungian Commentary on William Blake's
C ovitz , J oel , Emotional Child Abuse: The Family Curse.
T uby , M olly . (Ed). In the Wake of Jung
M artin , L uther H., G oss , J ames (Eds). Essays on Jung and the Study of Religion
C oward , H. with B ocelli , J. , J ordens , J. , and H enderson , J. Jung and Eastern Thought.     

Book reviews

Jay Haley, Ordeal Therapy: Unusual Way to Change Behaviour
S. Murgatroyd and R. Woolfe, Helping Families in Distress: An Introduction to Family Focussed Helping
Emilia Dowling and Elsie Osborne (Eds), The Family and the School—A Joint Systems Approach to Problems with Children
C. J. Brown et al. Treating the Remarried Family
Jean Campion, The Child in Context—Family Systems in Educational Psychology
I. R. H. Falloon et al., Family Management of Schizophrenia: A Study of Clinical, Social, Family and Economic Benefits
Linda Scotson, Doran, Child of Courage     

Book reviews

Bryan Lask and Abe Fosson, Childhood Illness: The Psychosomatic Approach. Children Talking with their Bodies
Harold D. Grotevant and Cindy I. Carlson. Family Assessment: A Guide to Methods and Measures
D. Black, S. Wolkind and J. H. Hendricks (Editors), Child Psychiatry and the Law
Rosalie Cruise Jesse, Children in Recovery
Timothy F. Dugan and Robert Coles, The Child in Our Times. Studies in the Development of Resiliency     

Book Reviews

Robin Skynner and John Cleese, Families and How to Survive Them .
S. Minuchin and C. Fishman, Family Therapy Techniques .
Arnold A. Lazarus, The Practice of Multimodal Therapy .
Brian Grant, Conciliation and Divorce—a Father's Letters to His Daughter .
M. Hersen, R. M. Eisler and P. M. Miller (Eds), Progress in Behaviour Modification .
R. E. McMullin and T. R. Giles, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy—a Restructuring Approach .
Arnon Bentovim, Gill Gorell Barnes and Alan Cooklin (Eds) Family Therapy: Complementary Frameworks of Theory and Practice .     

Book Reviews

John Mordechai Gottman, Marital Interaction: Experimental Investigations
R. M. Lerrer and G. B. Spanier (Eds), Child Influences on Marital and Family Interaction
Action Speaks Louder: A Handbook of Non-verbal Group Techniques
Paul Watzławick, The Language of Change
Alfred French, Distracted Children and Their Families
Richard Lansdown, More Than Sympathy—the everyday needs of sick and handicapped children and their families
Lee Headley, Adults and Their Parents in Family Therapy: A New Direction in Treatment     

Book reviews

M. Monoco and J. Thorburn, Self-Helpfor Parents with Children in Care
Lynn Segal, The Dream of Reality: Heinz von Foerster's Constructivism
Beverley Raphael, When Disaster Strikes. Hutchison Education
Luciane L'Abate and Steven E. Weinstein, Structured Enrichment Programmes for Couples and Families
H. Charles Fishman and Bernice L. Rosman (Eds), Evolving Models for Family Change: A Volume in Honour of Salvador Minuchin
R. Julian Hafner, Marriage and Mental Illness–A Sex-Roles Perspective
Donald E. Efron (Ed.), Journeys–Expansion of the Strategic–Systemic Therapies
Lori A. Goldfarb, Mary Jane Brotherstone, Jean Ann Summers and Ann P. Turnbull, Meeting the Challenge of Disability or Chronic Illness. A Family Guide
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, The Family, the Patient, and the Psychiatric Hospital: Toward a New Model
J. Leff and C. Vaughn, Expressed Emotion in Families
R. H. Falloon, J. L. Boyd and C. W. McGill, Family Care of Schizophrenia. A Problem-Solving Approach to the Treatment of Mental Illness     

Book reviews

Larry L. Constantine, Family Paradigms. The Practice of Theory in Family Therapy
Arnon Bentovim, Gill Gorell Barnes and Alan Cooklin (Eds) Family Therapy: Complementary Frameworks of Theory and Practice
Jean Shapiro, A Child: Tour Choice
William C. Nichols and Craig A. Everett. Systemic Family Therapy–An Integrative Approach
W. H. O'Hanlon and J. Wilk, Shifting Contexts: The Generation of Effective Psychotherapy
R. Julian Hafner, Marriage and Mental Illness: A Sex Role Perspective
Penny Jaques, Understanding Children's Problems, Helping Families to Help Themselves
Edward M. Waring, Enhancing Marital Intimacy through Facilitating Cognitive Self-disclosure
David E. Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff, Object Relations Family Therapy
C. Whitaker and W. Bumberry, Dancing with the Family, A Symbolic Experiential Approach     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Bohan, Janis S., Feminist Reconstructions in Psychology: Narrative, Gender, and Performance
Tolman, Deborah L. and Brydon-Miller, Mary (Eds.), From Subjects to Subjectivities: A Handbook of Interpretive and Participatory Methods
Lau Chin, Jean (Ed.), Relationships Among Asian American Women
Bevacqua, Maria, Rape on the Public Agenda: Feminism and the Politics of Sexual Assault
Janis S. Bohan, Feminist Reconstructions in Psychology: Narrative, Gender, and Performance
McMahon, Anthony, Taking Care of Men: Sexual Politics in the Public Mind
Wirth-Cauchon, Janet, Women and Borderline Personality Disorder: Symptoms and Stories
Chrisler, Joan C., Golden, Carla, and Rozee, Patricia (Eds.), Lectures on the Psychology of Women
Castle, David J., McGrath, John and Kulkarni, Jayashri (Eds.), Women and Schizophrenia
Crawford, Mary and Unger, Rhoda, In Our Own Words: Writings from Women's Lives (2nd Ed.)     

Book reviews

John S. Strauss, Malcolm Bowers, T. Wayne Downey, Stephen Fleck, Stanley Jackson and Ira Levine (Eds), The Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia
Charles H. Kramer, Becoming a Family Therapist—developing an integrated approach to working with families
Cloé Madanes, Strategic Family Therapy
Gordon A. Walter and Stephen E. Marks, Experiential Learning and Change—Theory, Design and Practice
Jeffrey K. Zeig (ed.), A Teaching Seminar with Milton Erickson, M.D.     

Book reviews and books received

MEICHENBAUM, D., 1997 Treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disordar: a Handbook and Practice Manual for Therapy Chichestex Wiley ISBN 0-471-97241-X £29.95

SALKOVSKIS, P.M. (Ed.), 1996 Frontiers of Cognitive Therapy New York Guilford £32.50 (hbk); L17.50 (bk) ISBN 1-57230-1 12-0 (hbk); 1-57230-172-4 (bk)

James I. & Palmer, S. (Eds), 1996, Professional Theropeutic Titles: Myths and Realities

Pope-Davis, D.B. & Coleman, H.L.K. (Eds) (1997), Multicultural Counselling Competencics: Assessment, Education and Training, and Supervision

Wilkins, P. (1997) Persod and Professional Development for Counsellors London: Sage £10.95 ISBN 0-8039-74463-9

Ellis, A., Gordon, J., Neenan, M. & Palmer, S., 1997, Streets Counselling: Rational Emotive Behaviour Approach

GILBERT, M. & Shmukler, D., 1996 Brief Therapy with Couples: an Integrative Approach Chichater: Wiley £12.99 ISBN 047 1-96206-6     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
E. Jones and E. Asen, Systemic Couple Therapy and Depression
Alan Carr, Family Therapy. Concepts, Process and Practice
Torben Marner, Letters to Children in Family Therapy: A Narrative Approach
David Campbell, The Socially Constructed Organization
Gitte Haslebo and Kit Nielsen, Systems and Meaning – Consulting in Organizations
Christopher Clulow (ed.), Adult Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy, The 'Secure Base' in Practice and Research
C. Everett Bailey (ed.), Children in Therapy – Using the Family as a Resource