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Families and Family Therapy by Salvador Minuchin is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Families and Family Therapy about?

No other book in the field today so fully combines vivid clinical examples, specific details of technique, and mature perspectives on both effectively functioning families and those seeking therapy. The views and strategies of a master clinician are presented here in such clear and precise form that readers can proceed directly from the book with comparisons and modifications to suit their own styles and working situations. Dr. Salvador Minuchin presents six chapter-length transcripts of actual family sessionsâe"two devoted to ordinary families who are meeting their problems with relative success; four concerned with families seeking help. Accompanying each transcript is the author's running interpretation of what is taking place, laying particular stress on the therapist's tactics and maneuvers. These lively sessions are interpreted in a brilliant theoretical analysis of why families develop problems and what it takes to set them right. The author constructs a model of an effectively functioning family and defines the boundaries around its different subsystems, whether parental, spouse, or sibling. He discusses ways in which families adapt to stress from within and without, as

Who reads Families and Family Therapy?

Author

Salvador Minuchin

Publisher

Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press

Published

1974

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674292369

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Psychology, Fiction

Rating

4.22 / 5 (222 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14