Main description:

Virtually all significant relationships are shadowed by a third party-another person, a competing distraction, or even a memory. This groundbreaking book provides clinicians with a hands-on guide to working with many different kinds of relationship triangles in therapy with families, couples, and individuals. The authors show why triangles come into being, how to predict their evolving nature, and how they can be dealt with and resolved in treatment. A wealth of clinical case material and treatment suggestions illustrates how thinking in terms of threes, as well as individuals and dyads, can greatly increase therapeutic flexibility and effectiveness. The paperback edition includes a new series editor's note by Michael P. Nichols.

Contents:

Series Editor's Note, Michael P. Nichols
1. Relationship Triangles: Evolution of the Concept
2. The Relevance of Triangles in Clinical Context
3. Addressing Triangles in Therapy
4. The Structure of Relationship Triangles
5. Emotional Process within Triangular Structure
6. The Interaction of Structure, Process, and Function
7. Introducing Triangles in Individual Therapy
8. Coaching and Direct Intervention with Triangles in Individual Therapy
9. Extrafamilial Triangles in Marital Conflict
10. Marital Triangles within the Family
11. Child and Adolescent Triangles
12. Symptomatic Child and Adolescent Triangles within the Family
13. Conclusion: Becoming a Triangle Doctor