Beyond the Smile

Linda Berman explores the importance of photographs in our lives, highlighting the hidden messages behind the images. She describes different ways of using photographs in therapy and shows how by triggering memory and emotion and revealing family patterns they can be used to help the patient. Detailed case studies, with appropriate illustrations, show how photographs can be used with individuals, couples and groups, and demonstrate how useful photographs can be in many different therapeutic settings.

Linda Berman is a psychotherapist and marital therapist in private practice.

1 Photographs in everyday life, 2 'I am here, I am there': paradoxes, contradictions and ambiguities within the photograph, 3 Using photographs in therapy: some general principles, 4 A clinical example: Jane, 5 A closer look at the family album: searching for clues to the past, 6 The search continues: exploring images of interaction, 7 Who can benefit? 8 'Can it really be me?' Photographs and the self