Families and Family Therapy

by Minuchin Salvad and Salvador Minuchin

Book Overview

No other book in the field so fully combines vivid clinical examples, specific details of technique, and mature perspectives on both effectively functioning families and those seeking therapy. The views and strategies of a master clinician are presented here in such clear and precise form that readers can proceed directly from the book with comparisons and modifications to suit their own styles and working situations.

Salvador Minuchin presents...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674292367
• ISBN13: 9780674292369
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Good Introduction to Family Therapy

Provides the rationale for Munuchin's approach to Family Therapy. Plenty of actual session transcriptions that demonstrate the principles described. Easy to read and understand

It's like taking a Structural Family Therapy course!

I purchased this book for a graduate course in Couples and Family Systems. If anyone wants to learn a great deal about structural family therapy, I highly recommend this book. It is extremely informative and very readable. It's amazingly enlightening- Minuchin discusses how problems that are regarded as genetic or biological are really manifestations of dysfunctional families,e.g. anorexic women are a product of couples who withhold their feelings.

Structural Family Therapy Explained

Sal Minuchin is known as the primary theoretician behind Structural Family Therapy. Structural Therapy is especially helpful with families that have inappropriate boundaries or that have dysfunctional marital dyads. This book explains the concepts behind the theory and helps the clinician understand how to put the therapy into practice. The book is well written and easy to read.Even if a therapist is primarily working with another counseling theory, this is an important book to have read and to have as part of the therapeutic repetoire.