Status
Available
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Publication
New York : Harper and Row
ISBN
0060145684 / 9780060145682
Description
The classic groundbreaking book on family therapy by acclaimed experts Augustus Y. Napier, PhD, and Carl Whitaker, MD. This extraordinary book presents scenarios of one family's therapy experience and explains what underlies each encounter. You will discover the general patterns that are common to all families-stress, polarization and escalation, scapegoating, triangulation, blaming, and the diffusion of identity-and you will gain a vivid understanding of the intriguing field of family therapy.
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CONTENTS:
1. The question of structure
2. A beginning
3. Origins
4. The concept of the system
5. Initiative
6. The basic conflict
7. Grandmother's ghost
8. Toward marriage
9. A partial resolution
10. Releasing
11. The underlying crisis
12. Return
13. Hate
14. The therapeutic moment
15. Collision course
16. Carolyn
17. The terrible choice
18. David
19. David's family
20. Ending therapy
21. Forum.
1. The question of structure
2. A beginning
3. Origins
4. The concept of the system
5. Initiative
6. The basic conflict
7. Grandmother's ghost
8. Toward marriage
9. A partial resolution
10. Releasing
11. The underlying crisis
12. Return
13. Hate
14. The therapeutic moment
15. Collision course
16. Carolyn
17. The terrible choice
18. David
19. David's family
20. Ending therapy
21. Forum.