Couples on the Fault Line: New Directions for Therapists »

Peggy Papp, MSW, is a senior training supervisor and director of the Depression Project at the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York City. A former board member of Family Process, she was a cofounder of the Women's Project in Family Therapy. She was an associate director of the Center for Family Learning and has served on the faculty of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic and the Family Studies Center of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Ms. Papp's innovative contributions to the field of family therapy have been recognized with awards from the American Family Therapy Academy and the American Association for Marital and Family Therapy. Her numerous publications include the books The Invisible Web (with Marianne Walters, Betty Carter, and Olga Silverstein) and The Process of Change, as well as a video program, Gender Differences in Depression (with the Ackerman Institute's Depression Project).

Couple therapy is no longer simply a matter of helping couples adjust to the different stages of the life cycle: the life cycle itself has changed. Advances in reproductive technology, the rise of electronic communication, increasing time pressures of daily life, the continuing transformation of gender roles, and the loosening of constraints on same-sex and cross-cultural partnerships are just some of the developments reshaping relationships today. This cutting-edge book brings together prominent marital and family therapists to explore the new challenges--and opportunities--facing couples and the clinicians who work with them. Illustrated with vivid case material, the volume presents a range of approaches to helping couples reconsider and reorder their life priorities around such central issues as love, marriage, parenting, commitment, intimacy, and aging.

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Marital and family therapists examine new challenges and opportunities facing couples and clinicians who work with them. Contributors represent many different outlooks and areas of expertise, yet share the ability to reevaluate accepted family therapy models and techniques in light of changing contexts in which couples live. They illuminate ways the private world of the couple is affected by outside social, cultural, and technological forces. Papp is a training supervisor whose contributions to the field of family therapy have been recognized by numerous awards. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)