Family Healing: Strategies for Hope and Understanding - Couverture souple

Minuchin, Salvador

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0684855739 ISBN 13 : 9780684855738

Editeur : Free Press, 1998

Synopsis

At the center of people’s lives is the family, which can be and should be a haven from the harshness of the outside world. Unfortunately, the source of people’s greatest hope for happiness often turns out to be the source of their worst disappointments. Now, the family therapist, Salvador Minuchin unravels the knots of family dynamics against the background of his own odyssey from an extended Argentinian Jewish family to his innovative treatment of troubled families. Through the stories of families who have sought his help, the reader is taken inside the consulting room to see how families struggle with self-defeating patterns of behavior. Through his confrontational style of therapy, Dr Minuchin demonstrates the strict but unseen rules that trap family members in stifling roles, and illuminates methods for helping families untangle systems of disharmony. In Dr Minuchin’s therapy there are no villains and no victims, only people trying to deal with various problems at each stage of the family life cycle. Minuchin understands the family as a system of interconnected lives, not as a “dysfunctional” group. Each story of a therapeutic encounter brings a new understanding of familiar dilemmas and classic mistakes, and recounts Dr Minuchin’s creative solutions.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Salvador Minuchin was a family therapist. He developed structural family therapy, which addresses problems within a family by charting the relationships between family members, or between subsets of family.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Citing dramatic case histories, family therapist Minuchin reveals the hidden rules that trap family members in stifling roles, explains many of the critical issues that families encounter, and tells what changes must occur if thay are to emerge successfully from a crisis.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Free Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0684855739
• ISBN 13: 9780684855738
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Van Ditmar Boeken, VDB Sales; sales@vanditmar.nl; ; Papendorpseweg 99; Utrecht; 3528 BJ; Pays-Bas