Couples in conflict : a family systems approach to marriage counseling / Ronald W. Richardson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A new way of caring -- Emotional systems -- Anxiety and the emotional system -- Differentiation of self -- Triangles -- The emotional development of a couple and a family -- Symptomatic mechanisms -- The counseling relationship in the Bowen theory -- Getting started and assessing the couple -- Goals for the counseling process -- Addressing the triangles in counseling -- The counseling process : beginning phase -- The transition to middle-phase counseling -- The counseling process : middle phase -- Coaching family-of-origin work -- The counseling process : the termination phase.