Volume 22, Number 2 · February 20, 1975
The New Wave in Psychiatry
By Elsa First
Techniques of Family Therapy
by Jay Haley, by Lynn Hoffman
Basic Books, 480 pp., $4.95 (paper)
Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution
by Paul Watzlawick, by John Weakland, by Richard Fisch
Norton, 172 pp., $7.95
Families and Family Therapy
by Salvador Minuchin
Harvard University Press, 320 pp., $10.00
I Think It's Me—Difference Display as a Contextual Event, A Family With a Little Fire, The Open Door: A Structural Approach to a Family with an Anorectic Child
Films available from the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic
Some psychiatric patients (most notably, young adult schizophrenics) seem unable to get better because of the pressures their families exert on them. This common clinical observation gave rise, some fifteen years ago, to attempts to treat families as a whole. The number of clinicians treating families has since multiplied (there were several thousand at the last government count, with training programs at a dozen major city teaching hospitals), and they would describe themselves as the Family Therapy movement. There are two main schools within family therapy. One derives from psychoanalysis, and is interested in how the inner lives of family members interlock. The other school, more controversial though increasingly influential, is interested in families as 'systems.'The instructions of a systems-minded supervisor to a beginning family therapist might run like this:
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