| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 380 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword: "Between Two Chairs" / Maurizio Andolfi -- Introduction: "Every Exit is an Entrance Somewhere Else" -- 1. The Strange and the Familiar: Intercultural Encounters among Families, Therapists, and Consultants -- 2. Cultural Family Therapy: A New Synthesis -- 3. The Presenting Culture: A Context for Family Therapy -- 4. Beyond Babel: Cultural and Therapeutic Translation -- 5. Changelings: Children and Families in Cultural Transition -- 6. Threshold Therapy: Liminal People and Transitional States -- 7. Stones and Bridges: The Myth of Independence -- 8. Stones without Bridges: Four Orphan Cases -- 9. A Garden of Forking Paths: Exploring a Family's Alternities of Being -- 10. The Web of Meaning: Metaphor and the Transformation of Experience -- 11. Strangers No More: A Family Therapist Meets His Father. |
| Note |
"A Norton Professional book"--Half T.p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-355) and index. |
| Subject |
Family psychotherapy.
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Psychiatry, Transcultural.
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| ISBN |
0393702286 |
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