Family Kaleidoscope
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (823 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674292316 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. Salvador Minuchin, M.D., is author of Families and Family Therapy and Family Kaleidoscope and coauthor of Psychosomatic Families: Anorexia Nervosa in Context
With characteristic insight, compassion, and dry humor, the grand master of family therapy challenges us to meditate on some of the most perplexingand profoundquestions of the day: Why is our image of the ideal family so far from the common reality? When we have such a rich literature of individual psychology, why is the family comparatively neglected? Why does our legal system promote confrontation rather than cooperation?
A pleasure to read You would think this book is for specialists: family therapists, psychologists, social workers and so on. But is not. Or at least not only. Specialists will enjoy a book that is literature and still challenges your perspectives so deeply, but non-specialists will be esp. "Everyone suffer with a member's disability" according to A Customer. A great book. Sad how child and family have to suffer
He is never smug, always open and feeling. In this book we get to hear from Minuchin the expert and Minuchin the person. The individual with limited experience with family systems concepts will find an easy to read account of family therapy without the often intimidating and unfamiliar jargon. (Kenneth S. They are each parts of the kaleidoscope, but they transcend the patterns of which they are a partThe book deserves an audience. (Henry Grunebaum, M.D. Family Process) . It joins that small company of booksthat help the public understand the work of family therapists and its theoretical contributions. Dr. An imaginary dialogue between Author and Reader ends each chapter--a disarming way to raise some of the issues the skeptical reader wants