Table of Contents
Part I
Re-membering the Family
Part II
A Feminist Critique of Eight Approaches to Family Therapy
Nathan Ackerman: The Patriarch's Legacy
Murray Bowen: The Politics of Rational Man
Virginia Satir: The Limitations of Humanism I
Salvador Minuchin: The Matter of Functionalism
Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy: The Limitations of Humanism II
Strategic Family Therapy: Perfecting the Unexamined Life
Carl Whitaker: Playing with Patriarchy
Milan Systemic Therapy: The Myth of Mythlessness
History and Insight: Toward a Feminist Theory of Psychotherapy with Families
The Family in History: Gender and Structure in Five Types of Families from Antiquity to the Present
A Critique of the Cybernetic Epistemology of Gregory Bateson
Psychoanalytic Theory as a Conceptual Source for Feminist Psychotherapy with Families
Care and Interpretation: Toward a Feminist Practice of Psychotherapy with Families
The DeWitts: The Case of a Therapist in Transition
The McGinns: “Irrational” Mom and a Method to Madness
The Johnsons: Dreams, Introjects, and the Black Family
—Carol Gilligan, Ph.D., Harvard University, author of
In a Different Voice —Joel Kovel, M.D., author of
The Age of Desire: Case Histories of a Radical Psychoanalyst Author Biography: Deborah Anna Luepnitz, Ph.D., is on the Clinical Faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She is the author of Schopenhauer's Porcupines (Basic Books, 2002). She maintains a private practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
