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A master class in family therapy--now updated with an additional ten years' case experience



Few people have had as profound an impact on the theory and practice of family therapy as Salvador Minuchin. As one commentator put it, "Memories of his classic sessions have become the standard against which therapists judge their own best work." This new edition of the classic, Mastering Family Therapy, offers beginners and experienced practitioners alike the opportunity to learn the art and science of family therapy under this pioneering clinician and teacher.

In elegant clinical interplays, Minuchin, his colleagues Wai-Yung Lee and George Simon, and eight advanced students provide answers to such critical questions as:
* What does it take to master the art of family therapy?
* How do I create an effective personal style?
* How can I become an instrument for growth for troubled families?


This updated Second Edition features:
* An overview and critique of new models of treatment in the field, especially evidence-based models of family treatment
* New case material highlighting the impact of societal context on families
* Minuchin's conceptualization of a four-step process of family assessment, including how history can impact current family functioning


A new and thoroughly revised version of the classic text, Mastering Family Therapy, Second Edition is essential reading for all those who practice, study, or teach family therapy.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Foreword(p. vii)
• Preface(p. ix)
• Acknowledgments(p. xiii)
• Part I Families and Family Therapy
• 1 Family Therapy: A Theoretical Dichotomy(p. 3)
• 2 Family Particulars: All Families Are Different(p. 17)
• 3 Family Universals: All Families Are Alike(p. 33)
• 4 Family Therapies: Clinical Practice and Supervision(p. 41)
• 5 Contemporary Trends: Whatever Happened to Family Therapy?(p. 61)
• 6 The Therapeutic Encounter(p. 75)
• Part II Stories of Supervision
• 7 Supervision of the Therapeutic Encounter(p. 99)
• 8 The Feminist and the Hierarchical Teacher(p. 107)
• 9 One Head, Many Hats(p. 123)
• 10 The Poet and the Drummer(p. 137)
• 11 "The Oedipal Son" Revisited(p. 159)
• 12 Into the Crucible(p. 177)
• 13 Men and Dependency: The Treatment of a Same-Sex Couple(p. 195)
• 14 The Shit-Painter(p. 215)
• 15 Filling the Empty Vessel: Andy Schauer's Story(p. 243)
• Epilogue(p. 261)
• References(p. 267)
• Index(p. 271)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Salvador Minuchin was born in San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina on October 13, 1921. He received a medical degree from the National University of Córdoba in Argentina and then enlisted in the Israeli Army during the 1948 war for independence. He studied child psychiatry in the United States. He returned to Israel to treat Holocaust orphans and children displaced by wars, then came back to New York to train in psychoanalysis at the William Alanson White Institute.

He went on to work as a child psychiatrist at the Wiltwyck School for delinquent boys in the Hudson Valley, where he developed his theory of structural family therapy. He co-wrote several books including Families of the Slums, Family Healing: Tales of Hope and Renewal from Family Therapy, and Institutionalizing Madness: Families, Therapy and Society. In the mid-1960s, he was the director of psychiatry at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, director of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. He retired as the clinic's director in 1975 and served as director emeritus and head of training until 1983.

He moved to New York to establish the Family Studies Institute (now the Minuchin Center for the Family), a nonprofit training center for therapists. He also joined the faculty of the New York University School of Medicine as a research professor. He retired in 1996. He died from heart disease on October 30, 2017 at the age of 96.

(Bowker Author Biography)