Foreword - Frank Pittman
Introduction
The Threads That Connect
PART ONE: THE PERSON OF THE THERAPIST
What Women Must Be and Do to Work Effectively with Men
Pitfalls When Women Work with Men
PART TWO: THE ART OF TREATMENT PLANNING
Overview of the Tapestry
The Grid for the Model
The Process of Therapy
To Generate Development or Merely to Teach Skills?
PART THREE: BACKDROP FOR STRUCTURING TREATMENT
A Primer for Systems Thinking
Unresolved Loss
A Barrier to Intimacy
PART FOUR: GUIDELINES FOR TREATMENT PLANNING
Training Wheels for Better Relationships
Individual Therapy
It Takes Two to Tango
Couples Therapy
Sitting in a Roomful of Fathers
Men's Group Therapy
The Major Surgery of Psychotherapy
The Extended Family of Origin Session
PART FIVE: EPILOGUE
Some Treatment Disappointments
Shapers of, or Reactors to, a Social Revolution?