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<p>While iconic popular images celebrated family life during the 1950s and 1960s, American families were simultaneously regarded as potentially menacing sources of social disruption. The history of family therapy makes the complicated power of the family at midcentury vividly apparent. Clinicians developed a new approach to psychotherapy that claimed to locate the cause and treatment of mental illness in observable patterns of family interaction and communication rather than in individual psyche
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- Author
- Weinstein, Deborah
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801451416
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Psychology, Medical, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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