About the book: 2012 / The book is dedicated to an extremely relevant topic - psychotherapy of married couples. Modern marriage has been in crisis for several decades - families are breaking up, more and more people are not starting families at all. At the same time, people have by no means lost the need to be in a couple and still experience discomfort from loneliness. The authors are employees of the Department of Systemic Family Psychotherapy at the Institute of Practical Psychology and Psychoanalysis, and have extensive experience working with problem couples. Modern approaches to couples psychotherapy are described and their typology is presented. Techniques for psychological assistance to married couples are presented, issues of psychotherapy for divorce, work with families suffering from alcoholism of their members, changes in the family climate in the family after the birth of children are touched upon. All sections of the book are written in a lively, accessible language, illustrated with examples, which makes it interesting not only for practical psychologists, but also for everyone who is concerned about the problems of the modern family.