ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |13 pages

Making Couples Therapy Work

Start With the Basic Ingredients

chapter |17 pages

Couples Dialogue

The Essential Skill

chapter |23 pages

Session One

The Cosmic Journey, the Brain, and Couples Dialogue

chapter |16 pages

Session Two

Development, Childhood Experiences, and Mate Selection

chapter |15 pages

Session Three

Developing Empathy and Reimaging the Partners

chapter |14 pages

Session Four

Reromanticizing the Relationship

chapter |18 pages

Session Five

Restructuring Frustrations

chapter |18 pages

Session Six

Resolving Rage

chapter |5 pages

After the Therapy

chapter |26 pages

Case Studies