Expanding the Limits of Individual and Family Therapies

David Pocock is a systemic family therapist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in independent practice in Wiltshire, UK. He is the co-editor, with Carmel Flaskas, of Systems and Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Integrations in Family Therapy, (Karnac, 2009), and a series editor of the Palgrave Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy series.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. What Is Real? What Is Knowledge?.- 3. Pluralism.- 4. Knowing and Not-Knowing.- 5. Theory Choice.- 6. Emotion in the System.- 7. Collaboration and Change.- 8. Sameness and Otherness.- 9. Who to See, and Other Choices.- 10. Triangles.- 11. Aggressive, Out-of-Control Behaviour.- 12. Self-Harm and Suicidality.- 13. Critical Realism: Why Bother?.