Family Healing
Strategies for Hope and Understanding
Salvador Minuchin ; Michael P. Nichols
- At
- the
- center
- of
- people’s
- lives
- is
- the
- family,
- which
- can
- be
- and
- should
- be
- a
- haven
- from
- the
- harshness
- of
- the
- outside
- world.
- Unfortunately,
- the
- source
- of
- people’s
- greatest
- hope
- for
- happiness
- often
- turns
- out
- to
- be
- the
- source
- of
- their
- worst
- disappointments.
- Now,
- the
- family
- therapist,
- Salvador
- Minuchin
- unravels
- the
- knots
- of
- family
- dynamics
- against
- the
- background
- of
- his
- own
- odyssey
- from
- an
- extended
- Argentinian
- Jewish
- family
- to
- his
- innovative
- treatment
- of
- troubled
- families.
- Through
- the
- stories
- of
- families
- who
- have
- sought
- his
- help,
- the
- reader
- is
- taken
- inside
- the
- consulting
- room
- to
- see
- how
- families
- struggle
- with
- self-defeating
- patterns
- of
- behavior.
- Through
- his
- confrontational
- style
- of
- therapy,
- Dr
- Minuchin
- demonstrates
- the
- strict
- but
- unseen
- rules
- that
- trap
- family
- members
- in
- stifling
- roles,
- and
- illuminates
- methods
- for
- helping
- families
- untangle
- systems
- of
- disharmony.
- In
- Dr
- Minuchin’s
- therapy
- there
- are
- no
- villains
- and
- no
- victims,
- only
- people
- trying
- to
- deal
- with
- various
- problems
- at
- each
- stage
- of
- the
- family
- life
- cycle.
- Minuchin
- understands
- the
- family
- as
- a
- system
- of
- interconnected
- lives,
- not
- as
- a
- “dysfunctional”
- group.
- Each
- story
- of
- a
- therapeutic
- encounter
- brings
- a
- new
- understanding
- of
- familiar
- dilemmas
- and
- classic
- mistakes,
- and
- recounts
- Dr
- Minuchin’s
- creative solutions.
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