Psychotherapy for the Whole Family

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction and overview....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
The search for a conceptual model....Pages 8-14
The family and schizophrenia....Pages 15-19
Methods and plan of treatment....Pages 20-30
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
The Island family....Pages 32-79
The Rituell family....Pages 80-105
The Oralcle family....Pages 106-129
The Ichabod family....Pages 130-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
Quantitative family evaluation measures....Pages 146-164
The Clinician’s views regarding therapeutic movement, and the reliability of his observations regarding communication....Pages 165-174
Clinical assessment of improvement....Pages 175-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-186
The active role of the family therapist....Pages 187-196
Some specific therapeutic techniques with schizophrenic families....Pages 197-205
The demands upon the therapist....Pages 206-212
Heterosexual co-therapy relationship and its significance in family therapy....Pages 213-227
Open discussion of sexual material in family therapy....Pages 228-231
The single therapist in family therapy....Pages 232-238
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Implications of the home setting for family treatment....Pages 240-254
Resistances in family therapy of schizophrenia in the home....Pages 255-262
The absent-member maneuver as a family resistance....Pages 263-274
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
The “well” sibling in the “sick” family: a contradiction....Pages 275-284
The role of significant peripheral persons in alloplastic resistances of schizophrenogenic families....Pages 285-292
The transfer of illness phenomenon in schizophrenic families....Pages 293-304
The concept of change in conjoint family therapy....Pages 305-317
Front Matter....Pages 319-319
The continuing search for a conceptual model of family psychopathology....Pages 320-332
Epilogue of the authors....Pages 333-336
Back Matter....Pages 337-354