Mastering Family Therapy

SALVADOR MINUCHIN, PHD, is the author of the field's standard text, Families and Family Therapy, as well as numerous other works, including, most recently, Working with Families of the Poor (coauthored with Patricia Minuchin and Jorge Colapinto). He is former director of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center, director of Family Studies, Inc., and research professor of psychiatry at New York University. WAI-YUNG LEE, PHD, is the Director of the Hku Family Institute and Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration of The University of Hong Kong. She remains on the faculty of The Minuchin Center and has studied and worked with Salvador Minuchin since 1990. GEORGE M. SIMON, PHD, is on the faculty of The Minuchin Center. He maintains a private practice dedicated to couples and family therapy in New York and teaches family therapy to the staff at the Children's Village in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He has studied and worked with Salvador Minuchin since 1990.

Foreword 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