Transforming the Legacy: Couple Therapy with Survivors of Childhood Trauma.(Book review)

Transforming the Legacy: Couple Therapy with Survivors of Childhood Trauma. Kathryn Karusaitis Basham and Dennis Miehls. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004, 381 pages. ISBN: 0-231-12342-6 $50.00 hardback.

This book adds to the literature of couple therapy because of its well-developed depth of presentation. The authors ground their approach in several theoretical perspectives, but the reader gets the impression that object relations theory is "first among equals" A clear organizational framework provides a strong basis for the writing. Basham and Miehls begin wit