Inside Family Therapy: A Case Study in Family Healing
by Nichols, Michael P.Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-06-05
Publisher(s): Pearson
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Summary
Follow a family therapist's narrative diary as he documents the process of working with the Salazars, as they explore each stage of their relationship-from courtship through the departure of the children from the home.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| Disturbing the Peace | p. 1 |
| "Can You Help Us?" | p. 1 |
| Looking for Leverage | p. 2 |
| Dialogue: Setting the System in Motion | p. 5 |
| It Must Be a Marital Problem | p. 8 |
| Linear versus Circular Causality | p. 8 |
| The Making of a Family Therapist | p. 15 |
| Behind the One-Way Mirror | p. 18 |
| Love's Young Dream | p. 23 |
| "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" | p. 24 |
| "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" | p. 29 |
| "I Do" | p. 30 |
| The Progress of Love | p. 33 |
| "Why Are You So Mean to Me?" | p. 35 |
| Idealization | p. 40 |
| Accommodation | p. 42 |
| Boundaries | p. 43 |
| How to Succeed as a Couple by Really Trying | p. 47 |
| In-Laws | p. 51 |
| "Alone at Last" | p. 53 |
| Invaders from Another Planet | p. 54 |
| Accommodation and Boundary-Making with the In-Laws | p. 56 |
| Invisible Loyalties | p. 60 |
| Past Tense and Imperfect Future | p. 61 |
| The Depressed Young Mother | p. 67 |
| The Impossible Job | p. 69 |
| The Family Life Cycle | p. 72 |
| 2 + 1 = 2 | p. 76 |
| Heather's Birth | p. 77 |
| The Young and the Restless | p. 79 |
| Renegotiating Boundaries with Grandparents | p. 80 |
| Reciprocity | p. 81 |
| Bitter Fruit | p. 83 |
| Why Can't Jason Behave? | p. 87 |
| Fix My Child without Disturbing Me | p. 89 |
| Family Rules | p. 90 |
| Family Structure | p. 92 |
| The Strucural Model | p. 93 |
| Blueprint for a Healthy Family | p. 96 |
| Uncovering the Structure in a Family | p. 99 |
| Building Children's Self-Esteem | p. 100 |
| The Overinvolved Mother and Peripheral Father | p. 103 |
| The Need to Restructure the Family | p. 105 |
| Shared Parenting | p. 108 |
| The Best of Intentions | p. 108 |
| Pursuers and Distancers | p. 111 |
| Self-Defeating Cycles | p. 114 |
| Family Feud | p. 119 |
| Sibling Rivalry | p. 120 |
| Enmeshment | p. 124 |
| Disengagement | p. 126 |
| Brotherhood and Sisterhood | p. 129 |
| Loss of Innocence | p. 131 |
| To Tell or Not to Tell, That Is the Question | p. 136 |
| All Hell Breaks Loose | p. 139 |
| "Why, Why, Why?" | p. 141 |
| Moving On | p. 145 |
| Divorce, Remarriage, and Stepparenting | p. 151 |
| Families in Transition | p. 156 |
| Uncoupling | p. 156 |
| Reorganizing | p. 159 |
| Blending | p. 161 |
| Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll: The Rebellious Teenager | p. 165 |
| That Awful, Awkward Age | p. 169 |
| How Worried Should Parents Be about Their Teenagers? | p. 174 |
| The Terrible Teens | p. 178 |
| The Salazars' Family Therapy | p. 181 |
| Shifting Boundaries | p. 191 |
| All Together Again, and Out | p. 193 |
| Notes on Technique | p. 198 |
| Letting Go | p. 203 |
| "It's the End of Our Family" | p. 209 |
| The Long Good-Bye | p. 210 |
| Boomerang Kids | p. 211 |
| "Under Certain Conditions" | p. 212 |
| Index | p. 215 |
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