'This is a very valuable contribution to the literature on family therapy. It is timely, clearly and engagingly written, and it advances family therapy by clarifying concepts which have been very problematic, and offering new ways forward.' - Stephen Frosh, Birkbeck College, London

• Connections in Postmodern Times - An Introduction. The Shape of Postmodernism. Social Constructionist Ideas and the Narrative Metaphor. The Question of Reality and Realness. Truth as a Process. The Narrative Self and the Limits of Language. Postmodernist Limits and Intersecting Psychoanalytic Ideas. Attachment and the Unconscious. Transference, Projective Identification and Time. Further Thoughts on the Therapeutic Relationship. Concluding Comments.

'This is a very valuable contribution to the literature on family therapy. It is timely, clearly and engagingly written, and it advances family therapy by clarifying concepts which have been very problematic, and offering new ways forward.' - Stephen Frosh, Birkbeck College, London

• Connections in Postmodern Times - An Introduction. The Shape of Postmodernism. Social Constructionist Ideas and the Narrative Metaphor. The Question of Reality and Realness. Truth as a Process. The Narrative Self and the Limits of Language. Postmodernist Limits and Intersecting Psychoanalytic Ideas. Attachment and the Unconscious. Transference, Projective Identification and Time. Further Thoughts on the Therapeutic Relationship. Concluding Comments.

'This is a very valuable contribution to the literature on family therapy. It is timely, clearly and engagingly written, and it advances family therapy by clarifying concepts which have been very problematic, and offering new ways forward.' - Stephen Frosh, Birkbeck College, London

• Connections in Postmodern Times - An Introduction. The Shape of Postmodernism. Social Constructionist Ideas and the Narrative Metaphor. The Question of Reality and Realness. Truth as a Process. The Narrative Self and the Limits of Language. Postmodernist Limits and Intersecting Psychoanalytic Ideas. Attachment and the Unconscious. Transference, Projective Identification and Time. Further Thoughts on the Therapeutic Relationship. Concluding Comments.