Family Therapy Techniques

by Salvador Minuchin, H. Charles Fishman

Overview

A master of family therapy, Salvador Minuchin, traces for the first time the minute operations of day-to-day practice. Dr. Minuchin has achieved renown for his theoretical breakthroughs and his success at treatment. Now he explains in close detail those precise and difficult maneuvers that constitute his art. The book thus codifies the method of one of the country’s most successful practitioners.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674041110
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	07/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	315
File size:	432 KB

About the Author

H. Charles Fishman, M.D., is Executive Director of the Institute for the Family, in Princeton Junction, New Jersey. Dr. Fishman maintains private practice in both Princeton and Philadelphia.

Table of Contents

1. Spontaneity

2. Families

3. Joining

4. Planning

5. Change

6. Reframing

7. Enactment

8. Focus

9. Intensity

10. Restructuring

11. Boundaries

12. Unbalancing

13. Complementarity

14. Realities

15. Constructions

16. Paradoxes, by Peggy Papp

17. Strengths

18. Beyond Technique

Notes

Case Index

General Index

Editorial Reviews

Among family therapists, Minuchin is recognized as a most original innovator, a superb clinician, and an outstanding teacher. He has been able to transmit all of his background and experience into this excellent book. Anyone who has a serious interest in family therapy today will want to have and to know this book.

Journal of Psychotherapy

For the individual therapist searching for a better family model, Families and Family Therapy is recommended at the top of any list of acquisitions. It is doubtful whether any other family therapy publication today can match it.

Contemporary Psychology