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Book SynopsisFew people have had as profound an impact in the theory and practice of family therapy as Salvador Minuchin. As one commentator put it, "Memories of his classic sessions have become the standard against which therapists judge their own best work.
Table of ContentsForeword vii
Braulio Montalvo
Preface ix
Salvador Minuchin
Acknowledgments xiii
Part I Families and Family Therapy
1 Family Therapy: A Theoretical Dichotomy 3
2 Family Particulars: All Families are Different 17
3 Family Universals: All Families are Alike 33
4 Family Therapies: Clinical Practice and Supervision 41
5 Contemporary Trends: Whatever Happened to Family Therapy? 61
6 The Therapeutic Encounter 75
Part II Stories of Supervision
7 Supervision of the Therapeutic Encounter 99
8 The Feminist and the Hierarchical Teacher 107
Margaret Ann Meskill
9 One Head, Many Hats 123
Hannah Levin
10 The Poet and the Drummer 137
Adam Price
11 “The Oedipal Son” Revisited 159
Gil Tunnell
12 Into the Crucible 177
Israela Meyerstein
13 Men and Dependency: The Treatment of a Same-Sex Couple 195
David E. Greenan
14 The Shit-Painter 215
Wai-Yung Lee
15 Filling the Empty Vessel: Andy Schauer’s Story 243
Wai-Yung Lee
Epilogue 261
Salvador Minuchin
References 267
Index 271
