2nd Edition

Patterns Of Infidelity And Their Treatment

By Emily M. Brown Copyright 2001

    The new edition of this highly-regarded book includes comprehensive discussion of the nature of an affair and the five types of affairs and their underlying dynamics. The author addresses issues regarding revealing the affair, management of the consequences, rebuilding, and treating an unmarried third party, as well as the host of complex issues regarding children and custody arrangements. New material for the second edition includes cybersex and the effects of new technology on fidelity in marriage; the effects of managed care on treatment; marriage to the third party; and a new chapter on affairs and violence.

    Introduction

    Section I: Patterns of Infidelity

    Chapter 1:
    An Affair is a Family Issue
    Chapter 2: Types of Affairs and their Messages

    Section II: Critical Issues in Treatment
    Chapter 3:
    Hiding, Telling, or Getting Caught: Issues in Revealing an Affair
    Chapter 4: Disclosing the Affair
    Chapter 5: Managing the Crisis
    Chapter 6: Rebuilding for Conflict and Intimacy Avoiders
    Chapter 7: Rebuilding for the Addictive Family
    Chapter 8: Rebuilding and the Split Self Affair
    Chapter 9: When the Marriage Ends with an Affair
    Chapter 10: The Unmarried Third Party
    Chapter 11: The Use of Group Treatment
    Chapter 12: Trust, Forgiveness, and Closure
    Chapter 13: Children and Affairs: Issues and Interventions
    Chapter 14: Affairs and Violence

    Section III: Legacies: Our Clients' and Our Own
    Chapter 15:
    Affairs, Divorce, and Remarriage
    Chapter 16: Family Therapists, Family Patterns, Family Secrets, and Affairs

    Appendix
    Bibliography
    Resources

    Biography

    Emily M. Brown, MSW, LCSW, is Director of the Key Bridge Therapy and Mediation Center in Arlington, Virginia.

    "Written both for therapists and general readers, this book considers the causes and consequences of affairs, and considers the use of treatment for those involved." -- SciTech Book News