Part 1 Essential Premises frame a conceptual map of couple treatment so therapists know where they are heading and how to get there. Part 2 Symptom Reduction, Guiding, and Coaching presents: techniques for rapid access to deeper underlying issues, strategies for guiding resolution of conflicts, and [...]

In a dramatic theoretical breakthrough, psychologist Susan M. Heitler unites various schools of therapy with a powerful insight: Conflicts, within and between people, lie at the core of emotional distress. Emotional healing depends on movement from conflict to resolution; therapists, whatever their [...]