1. Structural Family Therapy
This book is simply magnificent. Both novice and experienced family therapists can learn much from it. Just as Dr. Minuchin becomes quickly engaged with families, so the reader will become quickly engaged with his book. This will be a major and lasting contribution to the field of family study and therapy. I for one will make it standard reading with my students, psychiatric residents, and other trainees, as well as faculty. -- Lyman C. Wynne, M.D., Ph.D.
Salvador Minuchin, M.D., is author of Families and Family Therapy and Family Kaleidoscope and coauthor of Psychosomatic Families: Anorexia Nervosa in Context.
This book will be interesting to a variety of readers, and
particularly useful for mental health professionals working with
groups, family counselors interested in the dynamic of family
process, and scholars of social psychiatric phenomena.
*Journal of Marriage and the Family*
[The book], developed out of Salvador Minuchin's acute clinical
observations, presents a map of structural theory and a set of
guidelines which have led to astonishingly effective changes in
dysfunctional families. What may seem simple in Minuchin's approach
is often uncommon common sense or the deep clinical wisdom that
emerges out of intensive, repetitive study of family interactions
and communications.
*Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic*
There is no doubt that Minuchin has written a splendid book on
family therapy. His thoughts are presented clearly and
systematically, without short-changing conceptual and clinical
sophistication. The book is a rounded, self-contained statement of
structural family therapy that has much to teach the advanced
therapist, of whatever theoretical persuasion, and perhaps equally
as much to teach the beginner.
*Family Process*
Families and Family Therapy is far and away the most important
single unified book to have emerged to date from the field of
family therapy. Published by Harvard University Press, it is a
landmark textbook that will greatly facilitate the task of the
teacher of family therapy and theory. The student who is learning
to work with families will find it easy to understand, fascinating,
and richly rewarding at many levels… [Minuchin] has combined the
most sophisticated of conceptual approaches with simple, direct
exposition, achieving a creative synthesis that, in this reviewer's
opinion, will stand as the definitive textbook in this field for
perhaps another generation… Among family therapists, Minuchin is
recognized as a most original innovator, a superb clinician, and an
outstanding teacher. He has been able to transmit all of his
background and experience into this excellent book. Anyone who has
a serious interest in family therapy today will want to have and to
know this book.
*American Journal of Psychotherapy*
This book is simply magnificent. Both novice and experienced family
therapists can learn much from it. Just as Dr. Minuchin becomes
quickly engaged with families, so the reader will become quickly
engaged with his book. This will be a major and lasting
contribution to the field of family study and therapy. I for one
will make it standard reading with my students, psychiatric
residents, and other trainees, as well as faculty.
*Lyman C. Wynne, M.D., Ph.D.*
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