Mastering Family Therapy

SALVADOR MINUCHIN, MD, is the author of the field's standard text, Families and Family Therapy, as well as numerous other works, including, most recently, Family Healing (with Michael P. Nichols). He is the former director of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center, Director of Family Studies, Inc., and Research Professor of Psychiatry at New York University. He and his wife, Patricia, a psychologist and author, live in Boston, Massachusetts. WAI--YUNG LEE, PhD, is a faculty member of the Minuchin Center for the Family in New York City and Director of Family Studies in Hong Kong. She is a visiting lecturer at the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong. She has studied and worked with Salvador Minuchin since 1990. GEORGE M. SIMON, MS, is a faculty member of the Minuchin Center for the Family and a member of the supervising faculty of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at Hofstra University. He is also on the staff of The Children's Center in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and the Family Service Association of Nassau County. He has studied and worked with Salvador Minuchin since 1990.

FAMILIES AND FAMILY THERAPY.; Family Therapy: A Theoretical Dichotomy.; Family Particulars: All Families Are Different.; Family Universals: All Families Are Alike.; Family Therapies: Clinical Practice and Supervision.; The Therapeutic Encounter.; STORIES OF SUPERVISION.; Supervision of the Therapeutic Encounter.; The Feminist and the Hierarchical Teacher.; One Head, Many Hats.; The Poet and the Drummer.; "The Oedipal Son" Revisited.; Into the Crucible.; Confronting the Gorilla.; Men and Dependency: The Treatment of a Same--Sex Couple.; The Shit--Painter.; Filling the Empty Vessel: Andy Schauer's Story.; Epilogue.; References.; Index.