The Pathological Family : : Postwar America and the Rise of Family Therapy / / Deborah Weinstein.
While iconic popular images celebrated family life during the 1950s and 1960s, American families were simultaneously regarded as potentially menacing sources of social disruption. The history of family therapy makes the complicated power of the family at midcentury vividly apparent. Clinicians devel...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 8 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Power of the Family
- 1. Personality Factories
- 2. "Systems Everywhere": Schizophrenia, Cybernetics, and the Double Bind
- 3. The Culture Concept at Work
- 4. Observational Practices and Natural Habitats
- 5. Visions of Family Life
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index