Main description:

Dancing with the Family presents something of a clinical importance, not to offer an all-encompassing theory of the family therapy. This book emphasize on a dual focus. You will be asked to remain cognizant of the centrality of the person of the therapist, as well as of the evolving process of the therapy.

Contents:

Preface

1. Beginning with the Family: Joining, Reframing and Expanding the Symptom

2. Person of the Therapists: Personal Integrity and Professional Role Structure

3. Process of Family Therapy: Political/Administrative Aspects and Stages of Therapy

4. Symbolic-Experiential Family Therapy

5. Getting Personal: Challenging Rigidities and Creating Pathways

6. The Universal Dilemma: Hopeless Men and Hopeful Women

7. The Secret to Unhappiness: Getting What You Want

8. Caring Revisited

9. The Healthy Family and Normal Pathology

10.Which Direction Is Growth? Three-Year Follow-up

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