The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series
Death Talk: Conversations with Children and Families
1st Edition
By Glenda Fredman
December 31, 1997
Death Talk is about the healing power of conversation. It gives numerous examples of children and their families being released from the grip of sadness, isolation, and fear by talking about their own experiences of death....
Divorce as Family Transition: When Private Sorrow Becomes A Public Matter
1st Edition
By Margaret Robinson
December 31, 1997
Based on the 1996 Family Law Act, this book looks at how the therapist can work with the different professions involved in a divorce, how children might be consulted, and ways in which vulnerable family members can be protected. 78 pages....
Interacting Stories: Narratives, Family Beliefs and Therapy
1st Edition
By Rudi Dallos
December 31, 1997
This book, offering reader the opportunity to reflect on ideas in the field of systemic and family therapy, examines the cross-fertilization of ideas that can result from an integration of systemic theory, personal construct theory, and the influential work on the analysis of narratives....
Systemic Therapy with Individuals
1st Edition
By Paolo Bertrando
December 31, 1996
The authors describe the work they are doing with individual clients in Milan. Locating themselves clearly within the tradition of the Milan approach and more recent social constructionist and narrative influences, and articulating continually a broad systemic framework emphasizing meaning ...
The Therapeutic Relationship in Systemic Therapy
1st Edition
Edited
By Carmel Flaskas, Amaryll Perlesz
December 31, 1996
Anyone following the recent developments of systemic thinking will be aware that activity has not been restricted to Europe and America. Systemic therapists and writers from both Australia and New Zealand are now making a major impact on the field, particularly in the way they explore therapy as an...
Psychodrama and Systemic Therapy
1st Edition
By Chris Farmer
December 31, 1995
It is now increasingly recognized that psychodrama provides a valid and useful tool in many different contexts; equally, practitioners in a wide variety of fields are acknowledging the benefits that a systems thinking approach can bring to their work. This book unites the two by describing the ...
Trauma-Organized Systems: Physical and Sexual Abuse in Families
1st Edition
By Arnon Bentovim
December 31, 1995
This book is about the experience of individuals who have been abused or who have abused others, but it also traces the way an abusive experience can organize a family or professional system so that changes are difficult to achieve. The author has been in the forefront of the child abuse ...
Cybernetics of Prejudices in the Practice of Psychotherapy
1st Edition
Edited
By Gianfranco Cecchin, Gerry Lane, Wendel A. Ray
December 31, 1994
Two central ideas have become part of the orthodoxy of modern family therapy thinking. The first is that the therapist is part of the system he or she observes, and the second is that the therapist and family create a co-evolving reality through their interactions until now. No one has described ...
Gender and Family Therapy
1st Edition
By Charlotte Burck, Gwyn Daniel
December 31, 1994
Burck and Daniel share the personal meaning that gender holds for them, and the open and enquiring, rather than definitive, style of their writing makes it easy for the reader to grasp their ideas. The authors' handling in the early chapters of the many intellectual conundrums about gender is clear...
Exchanging Voices: A Collaborative Approach to Family Therapy
1st Edition
By Lynn Hoffman
December 31, 1993
For this book, the author has not only compiled her writing for the last ten years, but she has written her own commentary about the personal and intellectual journey which led her from one paper to the next. The papers themselves read like a chronicle of the major ideas of the past ten years, but ...
Irreverence: A Strategy for Therapists' Survival
1st Edition
Edited
By Gianfranco Cecchin, Gerry Lane, Wendel A. Ray
December 31, 1993
Irreverence: A Strategy for Therapists' Survival marks the end result of a collaboration between three creative and highly respected therapists and writers in the family therapy field. It continues the tradition of the Milan group and later systemic thinkers by examining the way a therapist's own ...
Resource Focused Therapy
1st Edition
By Bradford Keeney, Wendel A. Ray
December 31, 1993
For some time the family therapy field has been moving away from a problem-based approach to work with clients. Ideas such as "creating a new family story", focusing on strengths and solutions, and making contracts with family members have all shifted interest toward a new approach to therapy. The ...