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The therapeutic relationship is a central topic in systemic psychotherapy and cross-cultural thinking. This title offers experienced systemic psychotherapists' reflections and thoughts on the issues of race, culture, and ethnicity in the therapeutic relationship.

This book tackles head on the often tabooed subject of death. It distils sophisticated clinical work into simple language, and describes simple techniques for talking to children about dying. The author makes sophisticated material accessible to a much wider range of practitioners than trained therapists.

Tracks the ways in which innovative systemic practitioners are creatively reassembling the clinical and intellectual lineaments of psychodynamic and systems thinking in their work. This collection as a whole reflects some of the deepest ideals and practices of both traditions at their best such as holding complexity, and tolerating contradiction.

Attempts to bridge the gap between systemic understanding and dialogic understanding in therapy, which have some similarities, but also a whole array of differences. The most striking one is the very vantage point for observation each of them holds.

Demonstrates how the ideas that Tom Andersen promulgates can be developed, or, how they can act as a springboard for other major contributors to the family therapy field such as Hoffman, Seikkula, Shotter and Harlene Anderson to develop and refine their own theoretical positions.