In addition to the following books and book chapters, Dr. Luquet has written over thirty peer-reviewed journal articles and is a contributing writer to the on-line magazine All About Jazz.
Books by Wade Luquet
Short-Term Couples Therapy: The Imago Model in Action
Now in its second edition, Wade Luquet's best-selling book on Imago Relationship Therapy is used by thousands of couples therapists world-wide. This book is also translated in Korean.
This book makes available to the professional therapist the technique and rationale of this evolutionary approach to working with couples in a brief therapy context.
"Wade Luquet is to be congratulated for his courageous and brilliant work"
Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.
"Imago Therapy is a brief and effective approach to treating couples. All therapists need to understand and be able to use this model. Dr. Luquet clearly describes the basic ingredients for successful relationships as well as the six basic sessions used in Imago Short-Term Therapy. This book should be required reading for students as well as practicing professionals."
- Jon Carlson, Distinguished Professor, Governors State University and author, Time for a Better Marriage
This book makes available to the professional therapist the technique and rationale of this evolutionary approach to working with couples in a brief therapy context.
"Wade Luquet is to be congratulated for his courageous and brilliant work"
Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.
"Imago Therapy is a brief and effective approach to treating couples. All therapists need to understand and be able to use this model. Dr. Luquet clearly describes the basic ingredients for successful relationships as well as the six basic sessions used in Imago Short-Term Therapy. This book should be required reading for students as well as practicing professionals."
- Jon Carlson, Distinguished Professor, Governors State University and author, Time for a Better Marriage
Healing in the Relational Paradigm: The Imago Relationship Therapy Casebook
Edited by Wade Luquet and Mo Hannah
Providing
access to Imago work with a broad range of couple types, this unique
book reveals ways in which activities, such as Couples Dialogue and the
Container Exercise, help couples expand and strengthen their relational
vocabulary. The first chapter, which proposes a new way of
conceptualizing child development and its impact on the forming and
maintaining of intimate relationships, lays the foundation for the
chapters to follow. Subsequent topics -- each handled by a front lines
Imago therapist -- reflect a true picture of the spectrum of issues and
identities that present themselves in therapy.
The authors demonstrate Imago's flexibility and promise across populations and in the hands of very different practitioners. They show the Imago approach to be more than just another technique; it is a profound shift in perspective, reinforced by a network of positive assumptions and communication exercises that together create an environment for healthy change.
"Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT) is a major contemporary approach to helping couples in trouble, and in this book Therapy Harville Hendrix and his collaborators show us why. An intriguing and important contribution, the book describes the evolution of IRT principles and practice, clarifying both its theoretical and applied potential. These eminently practical essays, by an impressive panel of contributors, will expand the thinking of novice and seasoned practitioners alike."
--Jeffrey K. Zeig, director, The Milton H. Erickson Foundation
The authors demonstrate Imago's flexibility and promise across populations and in the hands of very different practitioners. They show the Imago approach to be more than just another technique; it is a profound shift in perspective, reinforced by a network of positive assumptions and communication exercises that together create an environment for healthy change.
"Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT) is a major contemporary approach to helping couples in trouble, and in this book Therapy Harville Hendrix and his collaborators show us why. An intriguing and important contribution, the book describes the evolution of IRT principles and practice, clarifying both its theoretical and applied potential. These eminently practical essays, by an impressive panel of contributors, will expand the thinking of novice and seasoned practitioners alike."
--Jeffrey K. Zeig, director, The Milton H. Erickson Foundation
Imago Relationship Therapy: Perspectives on Theory
Edited by Wade Luquet and Mo Hannah
It's been more than three decades since Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt -- the best-selling authors of Getting the Love You Want and Keeping the Love You Find
-- created Imago Relationship Therapy. Their concept of the conscious
marriage introduced a new paradigm for understanding the dynamics of
couples. Since that time more than two thousand clinicians in
twenty-eight countries have adopted and implemented this highly
effective form of couples therapy. This groundbreaking book offers an
overview of the highly successful Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT) and
the relationship of IRT with preceding schools of thought such as
psychoanalytic theory, family systems theories, affect theory, and
self-psychology. At the heart of IRT is a three-step process involving
mirroring (reflecting) the partner's feelings, validating the partner's
point of view, and the expressing empathy toward the partner's feelings.
Imago Relationship Therapy traces IRT's history and explosive
growth and outlines the differences and similarities between Imago
theory and other models of couples therapy. The book also presents some
of the ideas of prominent Imago thinkers, such as the central role of
connectivity and the problem of envy in committed relationships.
"Some of the very best thinkers and clinicians offer their insights into the importance of relationship. The book will help one to become a more effective therapist and a better partner! Well worth reading for anyone involved in the helping professions."
--Jon Carlson, distinguished professor, Governors State University
"Some of the very best thinkers and clinicians offer their insights into the importance of relationship. The book will help one to become a more effective therapist and a better partner! Well worth reading for anyone involved in the helping professions."
--Jon Carlson, distinguished professor, Governors State University
Dr. Luquet has chapters in the following books
Featuring case presentations by many of the most distinguished practitioners of couple and family therapy, this volume brings to life the full spectrum of approaches in the field. The cases illustrate the principles and techniques of the respective approaches and allow the reader to "listen in" on highly skilled therapists at work. Editor Frank Dattilio comments on each case with a focus on ways to integrate systemic and cognitive-behavioral approaches. He suggests ways that cognitive principles might usefully be called upon at specific points. Responses from contributors consider the benefits of Dattilio's suggestions and elucidate each practitioner's decision-making process.
This volume presents 18 different treatment modalities for the same case, demonstrating a rich variety of interventions available for treating relationship problems. Treatment approaches are divided into psychoanalytic, cognitive-behavioral and integrative therapies. For students who want to prepare for licensure or professional counselors and therapists who want to improve their practice with couples.
Now, setting a new standard for publishing in the area of brief
therapy, there’s Brief Therapy Strategies with Individuals and Couples, a
sourcebook that brings together in a single place all the most
effective strategies and interventions–across orientations–for
time-effective treatment of individuals and couples. Each strategy is
carefully described and then clearly illustrated with clinical case
materials.
The chapter authors include 20 of today’s leaders in the field of brief therapy–Frank Dattilio, Michael Hoyt, Luciano L’Abate, Arnold Lazarus, Wade Luquet, Leigh McCullough, Scott Miller, and David Scharff among them.
"This groundbreaking book addresses a major need of almost all practicing therapists: efficacious brief therapy. Representing a wide range of counseling perspectives, the contributors to the book explain, with the help of familiar clients, how therapy can be shortened using their particular approach. The value of this book is in its clarity and detail. Practitioners may select practices that are compatible with their own beliefs and immediately put them to use in their offices. If you are in practice, this is a book you should not miss."
–William Glasser, M.D. Author of Reality Therapy in Action
The chapter authors include 20 of today’s leaders in the field of brief therapy–Frank Dattilio, Michael Hoyt, Luciano L’Abate, Arnold Lazarus, Wade Luquet, Leigh McCullough, Scott Miller, and David Scharff among them.
"This groundbreaking book addresses a major need of almost all practicing therapists: efficacious brief therapy. Representing a wide range of counseling perspectives, the contributors to the book explain, with the help of familiar clients, how therapy can be shortened using their particular approach. The value of this book is in its clarity and detail. Practitioners may select practices that are compatible with their own beliefs and immediately put them to use in their offices. If you are in practice, this is a book you should not miss."
–William Glasser, M.D. Author of Reality Therapy in Action
This up-to-date, highly readable, theory-based, and application-oriented book fills a crucial void in literature on couple therapy. Few books in the couple therapy market bridge the gap between theory and practice; texts tend to lean in one direction or the other, either emphasizing theory and research with little practical application, or taking a cookbook approach that describes specific techniques and interventions that are divorced from any conceptual or theoretical base. However, couples therapy requires a high degree of abstract/conceptual thinking, as well as ingenuity, inventiveness and skill on the part of the therapist. Case Studies in Couples Therapy blends the best of all worlds: clinical applications with challenging and diverse couples that have been derived from the most influential theories and models in couples and family therapy, all written by highly experienced and respected voices in the field.
In Case Studies in Couples Therapy, readers will grasp the essentials of major theories and approaches in a few pages and then see how concepts and principles are applied in the work of well-known clinicians. The case studies incorporate a wide variety of couples from diverse backgrounds in a number of different life situations. It is simultaneously narrow (including specific processes and interventions applied with real clients) and broad (clearly outlining a broad array of theories and concepts) in scope, and the interventions in it are directly linked to theoretical perspectives in a clear and systematic way. Students and clinicians alike will find the theoretical overview sections of each chapter clear and easy to follow, and each chapter’s thorough descriptions of effective, practical interventions will give readers a strong sense of the connections between theory and practice.
In Case Studies in Couples Therapy, readers will grasp the essentials of major theories and approaches in a few pages and then see how concepts and principles are applied in the work of well-known clinicians. The case studies incorporate a wide variety of couples from diverse backgrounds in a number of different life situations. It is simultaneously narrow (including specific processes and interventions applied with real clients) and broad (clearly outlining a broad array of theories and concepts) in scope, and the interventions in it are directly linked to theoretical perspectives in a clear and systematic way. Students and clinicians alike will find the theoretical overview sections of each chapter clear and easy to follow, and each chapter’s thorough descriptions of effective, practical interventions will give readers a strong sense of the connections between theory and practice.
This book will help practitioners overcome one of the leading challenges in couples therapy: working effectively with the male partner. Men have unique needs and psychological issues that many clinicians may not recognize or know how to address. This volume presents chapters by the leading practitioners associated with current therapeutic models, including Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, Imago Relationship Therapy, Integrated Behavioral Couple Therapy, and more. Using in-depth case examples, they demonstrate how their approaches can be adapted to be "male-sensitive" and respond to the ambivalence so many men experience about couples work. Special topics are also addressed, including infidelity, cultural diversity, working with veterans, and fathering issues. This book will enrich therapists’ work with couples, making treatment a welcoming experience for both partners and the treatment process more gratifying for the therapist.
"David Shepard and Michèle Harway have assembled a compendium of many of the leaders in couples therapy and asked their thoughts on engaging men. The result is a thoughtful, thorough, and revealing exploration of one of the field's most pressing topics." - Terry Real, PhD, Family Therapist and Founder, The Relational Life Institute, Boston, USA
"This is a welcome addition to the literature that assembles in one volume the most up to date information on male-sensitive couples therapy. Drs. Shepard and Harway have recruited an excellent group of contributors who truly understand how to engage men in therapy. It is a ‘must read’ for mental health students and professionals." - Ronald F. Levant, EdD, ABPP, 2005 President, the American Psychological Association; Professor of Psychology, the University of Akron, OH, USA