The author provides guidance on using advanced and innovative therapeutic techniques that focus on the distribution of power in relationships. Covers a wide age range and a variety of problems, including depression, anxiety, insomnia, sexual problems, alcoholism, psychosomatic illness, and anorexia.
Everyone faces the challenges of making relationships work. Whether with spouses, family members, friends, lovers, or colleagues, relationships have the power to make one feel happy, frustrated, or miserable. In Relationship Breakthrough, Cloe Madanes – an expert in creating healing, empowering relationships – gives readers vital tools to transform their relationships and their lives. Madanes’s cutting-edge methods produce real results and create rewarding, sustainable relationships.
Internationally known psychologist Cloé Madanes and writer Claudio Madanes present a revolutionary view of the role money plays in families. In dozens of stories, anecdotes, and case histories, they show how family members all use money in covert ways that express desires, struggles for power, and yearning for commitment. To prevent money issues from destroying relationships, the authors present an extraordinary problem-solving technique that uses money to restore and heal family relationships.
This work proposes a model for choosing the right intervention to solve the problems which are brought to therapy. The emphasis is on how to understand and control the many forms of violence (including incest and sexual abuse) that constitute a primary therapeutic problem of our time.
Madanes’ lucid, coherent, and practical guide for family therapists is a welcome addition to the proliferating literature by family therapy theorists and practitioners…. The book is concise, well organized and clearly written.”–Contemporary Psychology A classic work which uses imaginative techniques to help achieve balance within the family. It gives attention to specific problems such as violence, drug abuse, and depression, and seeks the hidden meaning in these symptoms, which are clues.
The Therapist as Humanist, Social Activist and Systemic Thinker
by Cloé Madanes
Strategic Therapy of Schizophrenia 198 . Money and the Family 1994. Leadership in Times of Crisis 004. Rebels with a Cause: Honoring the Subversive Power of Psychotherapy 1999. The Double Bind Hypothesis 1971. “Hey, did you hear the one about …?” 1985. A smattering of the titles enclosed to whet the appetite of any therapist, whether new to the field or seasoned professional. Reflecting some 5 years of Madanes’ thinking on essential aspects of theory and practice and her innovative approaches.
by Cloé Madanes, with James P. Keim and Dinah Smelser
Renowned family therapist Cloé Madanes presents a therapy of social action, a proven model of therapeutic intervention developed for professionals who work with violent men. At the very heart of this approach is the conviction that the offender is fully responsible for his actions. As evidence of this core belief, a therapy of social action requires the offender to acknowledge his violent actions, demonstrate authentic repentance, make amends to the victim, and find acceptable alternative behavior.
