The Perfect Mother, The Absent Wife

Tapping The Client's Natural Resources

Bradford Keeney, Ph.D., has taught therapy throughout the world for over 20 years. He has been associated with the Ackerman Institute for the Family, the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, and The Menninger Foundation, and has been the director of several family therapy doctoral programs. His books, Aesthetics of Change, Mind in Therapy, and Improvisational Therapy, have been translated into numerous languages. A scholar of diverse cultural healing traditions, Dr. Keeney is also a jazz pianist and improvisational performer.

She’s hyperresponsible; her husband is shamelessly irresponsible. He drinks too much; she overeats. Combining acute listening skills with a winning sense of play, Keeney shows how to zero in on his client’s unique resources and abilities to help her get her marriage back on track.