ABSTRACT
This book is about the application of systemic ideas and practice to depressed individuals and their partners. It has been written in response to the considerable interest stimulated in the psychotherapeutic and psychiatric communities by the findings of a comparative research study on depression, carried out over a period of many years, in which we participated. In the first two chapters, we describe the findings of the research project and the development of a manual that lays out our approach; we then go on to give individual descriptions of our ways of working with clients, and end with a discussion of our observations in the course of the work, as well as reflections on the general applicability of this approach.
