432 Pages
by
Routledge
432 Pages
by
Routledge
432 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1984. This book was written in order to share the authors’ experience as family therapists not only with professionals but with families. We live in an age of anxiety, fear of violence and questioning of fundamental values. Confidence in traditional values is being challenged. Waves of prejudice seem to endanger our trust in one another and our loyalty to society. The strength... Read more
Chapter 1 Concepts of the Relational System; Chapter 2 The Dialectic Theory of Relationships; Chapter 3 Loyalty; Chapter 4 Justice and Social Dynamics; Chapter 5 Balance and Imbalance in Relationships; Chapter 6 Parentification; Chapter 7 Psychodynamic Versus Relational Dynamic Rationale; Chapter 8 Formation of a Working Alliance Between the Cotherapy System and the Family System; Chapter 9 Family Therapy and Reciprocity Between Grandparents, Parents, and Grandchildren; Chapter 10 Children and the Inner World of the Family; Chapter 11 Intergenerational Treatment of a Family That Battered a Child; Chapter 12 A Reconstructive Dialogue between a Family and a Cotherapy Team; Chapter 13 Brief Contextual Guidelines for the Conduct of Intergenerational Therapy; epi; Epilogue;
Biography
Ivan Boszormenp-Nagy, M.D. Professor and Chief of Family Therapy Section, Department of Mental Health Sciences, Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Director, Institute for Contextual Growth, Ambler, Pennsylvania. Geraldine M. Spark, M.S.W. Clinical Assistant Professor, Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
