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Family Healing: Strategies for Hope and Understanding

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I studied Salvatore Minuchin and became thoroughly convinced of the accuracy of his theories. A friend recommended this book to me. I gave this book to another friend as a gift. Her husband quickly snagged it. She reports that they both are obtaining benefit.

Salvador Minuchin, MD is one of the pioneers of family therapy and systems thinking. I use this book as an adjunct to journal articles and text's on family therapy. This book is the story of Dr. Minuchin's life and includes several cases which reflect his systemic thinking. The book is easy to read, inexpensive and something that busy graduate students in mental health fields or psychiatric residents may actually read! In this day of "evidence-based medicine", it is refreshing to review a master clinican who knows the "evidence" but also the "art".

i read this about two months ago, so take this with a grain of salt. then again, maybe it's better, cause here's what's stuck with me. it was a good book, but it really helped that i was into salvador minuchin already before reading it. if you don't know him, he's quite an icon, and i recommend watching some of his videos, because they really point to his genius, and for me, were the inspiration to want to delve deeper into his work.

this book tells a lot of minuchin's history, his development as a doctor and therapist, some early strengths of his as well as foibles and weaknesses (interesting stuff!), and just a fair amount of stuff you'd expect in any 3/4ths of the way decent autobiography.

anyway, my mind is shot so i'll leave this book in your hands. if you're interesting in minuchin, i don't think you'll regret reading this book, but i wouldn't recommend it as an intro to him or his work...

The nation's pioneer in family counseling and therapy shares his priceless wisdom with us in this book. Minuchin is a towering figure whose genius and brilliance will continue to help many families save themselves. Thank you Dr. Minuchin for writing this book.