| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxxviii, 466 pages : illustrations ; 24cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [439]-452) and index. |
| Contents |
Acting out the pain: the child as symptom bearer and delegate -- The beavers scale of family health and competence: levels 1-5 -- Family legacies: the ways in which the past invades the present -- Styles of relating: emotionally enmeshed and emotionally disengaged families -- The genogram: the family's existential blueprint for being -- Closely connected people: the family script, projective identification, and paradoxical tasks -- Establishing order and predictability: the emergence of a tyrant -- A core family dynamic: the oppressor and the oppressed -- Struggling for control: the bulimic strategy -- Re-creating the pain of the past: an attempt at resolution -- Early development: of love and survival -- Intimacy: patterns in human attachment -- What would the first sentence of your own autobiography be? -- A rule-bound emotional world: control of the self and of the system is established; intimacy remains elusive -- Her side of the genogram--an enmeshed family system and a quasi-incestuous "family affair": Toni Gifford -- His side of the genogram--a chilly, distanced family: Henry Gifford -- Opposites attract-or are they opposites? The merging of two family styles -- Alcohol and the family -- Intimacy, self-knowledge, and self-esteem -- Self boundaries and family boundaries -- Family tasks -- An important part of loving: acknowledging human separateness -- Why some children thrive despite early family trauma -- Love: unconditional, or conditional/earned -- Resolving conflict, managing power -- Journeying home. |
| Subject |
Family psychotherapy.
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Families -- Mental health.
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Families -- Psychological aspects.
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Family -- psychology -- Case Reports.
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Family Therapy -- methods -- Case Reports.
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Family Therapy -- Case Reports.
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Models, Psychological -- Case Reports.
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Parent-Child Relations -- Case Reports.
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| ISBN |
0394565436 |
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