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Families and Family Therapy

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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.

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.

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

Great resource. Learning a lot. Highly recommended reading for families that are struggling. Also a good reference for students studying the subject.

This is the classic text on structural family therapy and where the journey in to learning about family therapy should begin. While Minuchin's ideas about the ideal family structure are clearly products of his time, the notion that systems have a discernible structure is timeless; that there is a "perfect" or "desired" structure is now surpassed however.
I would suggest that this is a great place to start for the begining family therapist but make sure to go on from here and read on.

I bought this for a family therapy course. It's really interesting reading - I'm enjoying it a lot...