Positive Family Therapy: The Family as Therapist

Front Matter....Pages I-X
List of Stories....Pages 1-1
A Story for the Positive Process: The Dream....Pages 2-2
Six Theses of Positive Family Therapy....Pages 3-4
Introduction....Pages 5-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
The Situation in Science, Religion, Education, and Psychotherapy....Pages 13-15
What is “Family Therapy”?....Pages 16-16
What does “Positive Family Therapy” Mean?....Pages 17-19
Guidelines for the Reader....Pages 20-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Social Changes and the Image of Man....Pages 25-35
Practical Aspects of the East-West Concept in Family Therapy....Pages 36-48
Front Matter....Pages 49-50
The Family as Hell....Pages 51-55
The Family as Heaven....Pages 56-58
The Family as Fate....Pages 59-62
Forms of the Family....Pages 63-65
The Family Equilibrium....Pages 66-68
Family Therapy: Who Should Be Treated....Pages 69-72
Family or Clinic....Pages 73-75
The Development of Family Therapy....Pages 76-84
What Does Positive Family Therapy Deal With?....Pages 85-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
The Three Pillars of Positive Family Therapy....Pages 95-97
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
The Positive Starting Point....Pages 98-101
What Is “Positive Family Therapy”?....Pages 102-103
The Positive Image of Man—Unity in Diversity....Pages 104-108
The Basic Capabilities in the Literature....Pages 109-110
Possibilities for Reinterpretation....Pages 111-113
Practical Applications of the “Positive Interpretations”....Pages 114-128
Aids for Changing One’s Perspective....Pages 129-130
What Are “Concepts”?....Pages 131-132
Positive Family Therapy Does Not Remove Anything....Pages 133-134
The Patient as Therapist....Pages 135-135
The Positive Procedure in the Therapeutic Process....Pages 136-137
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Four Forms of Dealing with Conflict and How They Work....Pages 141-154
The Four Forms of Dealing with Conflict, as Used in Positive Family Therapy....Pages 155-157
The Four Model Dimensions....Pages 158-171
The Four Forms of the Model Dimensions in Positive Family Therapy....Pages 172-175
Actual Capabilities....Pages 176-182
Microtraumas: The So-called Little Things....Pages 183-184
Making Contents Concrete....Pages 185-186
The Significance of the Actual Capabilities....Pages 187-188
Actual Capabilities as Signs of Transcultural Differences....Pages 189-191
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Using the Differentiation Analytical Inventory (DAI)....Pages 192-197
Actual Conflict and Basic Conflict....Pages 198-200
The Three Stages of Interaction....Pages 201-207
Front Matter....Pages 209-212
The Stage of Observation/Distancing....Pages 213-219
The Stage of Taking Inventory....Pages 220-223
The Stage of Situational Encouragement....Pages 224-227
The Stage of Verbalization....Pages 228-230
The Stage of Goal Expansion....Pages 231-238
The Strategy of Positive Family Therapy....Pages 239-245
The Relationships between Therapeutic Models....Pages 246-249
Positive Family Therapy: Language and Social Strata....Pages 250-253
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
Concepts and Their Application in Positive Family Therapy....Pages 257-259
Concepts in Therapeutic Work: The Change of Perspective....Pages 260-261
Stories and Sayings as Aids for Changing One’s Perspective....Pages 262-265
Front Matter....Pages 267-268
Frigidity: The Ability to Say No with One’s Body....Pages 269-271
What Do Stomach Troubles Have to Do with Frugality?....Pages 272-277
My Parents Raised Me Wrong....Pages 278-281
Adiposity....Pages 282-285
A Heart Neurosis....Pages 286-288
What Will People Say?....Pages 289-292
Front Matter....Pages 267-268
Literary Concepts: Who Is Your Favorite Author?....Pages 293-296
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
Traditional Neurosis....Pages 299-300
Hanging onto Concepts or Changing Them....Pages 301-302
The Undecided Generation Conflict....Pages 303-304
Till Death Do You Part....Pages 305-306
The Wrong Way....Pages 307-308
Delegated Concepts....Pages 309-311
The Old Prohibition....Pages 312-313
Dangerous Tea....Pages 314-315
Can One Hurt Other People?....Pages 316-317
The Redeemer....Pages 318-318
The Concept Family Tree....Pages 319-323
Tradition of Symptoms....Pages 324-325
Back Matter....Pages 331-334