An edition of The embedded self (1996)

The embedded self

a psychoanalytic guide to couples and family therapy

2nd ed.
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An edition of The embedded self (1996)

The embedded self

a psychoanalytic guide to couples and family therapy

2nd ed.
  • 2 Want to read

The Embedded Self: A Psychoanalytic Guide to Family Therapy is a thoughtful and illuminating introduction to family treatment tailored to the sensibilities of psychoanalytically oriented clinicians. Skilled in both modalities, Mary-Joan Gerson provides the psychoanalytic reader with a genial overview of the family therapy movement, its history, its organizing concepts, and its interventions.

Basic family therapy approaches to development, diagnosis, and clinical engagement, as well as practical questions (such as when to refer and how to share information with colleagues) all fall within her purview.

But more importantly, The Embedded Self takes up the intellectual challenge of an alternative therapeutic modality to engage crucial questions about the therapeutic process. Pivoting her juxtaposition of the two forms of treatment on basic psychodynamic principles. Gerson invites the reader to appreciate how concepts developed for understanding the individual psyche are necessarily transformed when applied to the redundant communication patterns characteristic of family systems.

The result is a striking reappraisal of the nature and possibilities of psychodynamic intervention in which psychoanalysis and family therapy stand as figure and ground to one another, each shedding new light on the fundamental principles of the other.

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Routledge
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English

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The embedded self: a psychoanalytic guide to couples and family therapy
2009, Routledge
in English - 2nd ed.
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Cover of: Embedded Self
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The embedded self: a psychoanalytic guide to family therapy
1996, Analytic Press
in English

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Table of Contents

Possibilities for integration
Theoretical overview
An orientation to family systems theory
Controversies and conundrums
Nested contexts
Family patterning
Attachment theory : a new frontier
Development from a family perspective
Diagnosis in family therapy
Interventions in family therapy
The therapeutic relationship
Playfulness, authoritativeness, and honesty
Referrals : who? when? where?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
616.89/156
Library of Congress
RC488.5 .G47 2009, RC488.5.G47 2009, RC488.5 .G47 2010eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. ;

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Open Library
OL23164917M
Internet Archive
embeddedselfseco00gers
ISBN 13
9780415992411, 9780415992428
LCCN
2009005677
OCLC/WorldCat
449650971
Goodreads
7304439
6972811

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