The Evolving Therapist Ten Years of the Family Therapy Networker

by Simon, Richard; Barrilleaux, Cindy; Wylie, Mary Sykes; Markowitz, Laura M.

• ISBN13: 9780898622683
• ISBN10: 0898622689
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-03-06
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

Gathering together some of the most memorable articles that have appeared in the Networker since 1982, it chronicles the personal and professional challenges confronting today's family therapists. It looks at clinical advances in such diverse areas as couples therapy, brief treatment, approaches to substance abuse and family violence, and work with teens and small children. The Evolving Therapist traces the major debates of the last 10 years, from the therapeutic relevance of gender inequality to the ethics of constructivism. It explores the changing conceptions of the family therapist's role, while examining the impact of the decade's social, economic, and political tumult on our work.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Acknowledgments
Riding the Whirlwind: The Family Confronts Social Change
Lasting Rites	p. 3
New Divorce Rituals	p. 7
The Resounding Silence	p. 13
Letters to the Editor	p. 21
After the Anger, What Then?	p. 23
Recovery: A Modern Initiation Rite	p. 27
Restoring the Soul of the Family	p. 35
An AIDS Journal	p. 43
The Shelter	p. 55
Homosexuality: Are We Still in the Dark?	p. 65
Beware the Well-Intentioned Therapist	p. 71
Letters to the Editor	p. 76
Song Without Words	p. 81
On the Front Lines: Facing the Challenges of Everyday Practice
Know Thy Selves	p. 99
Marriage at the Turning Point	p. 111
After the Breakup	p. 119
Gullible's Travails: A Modern Marital Misadventure	p. 123
His and Her Divorces	p. 131
The Ties That Bind	p. 139
If He Keeps This Up He'll Die Soon	p. 145
Us and Them	p. 153
Brief Therapy on the Couch	p. 161
In Praise of Solutions	p. 173
Empowering the Elderly	p. 181
Research: Why Clinicians Should Bother With It	p. 193
Defining Our Task: Philosophy and Ethics in Psychotherapy
Family Therapy's Neglected Prophet	p. 211
The Man Who Never Explained Himself	p. 219
Do Families Really Need Problems?	p. 231
Let Us Sell No Intervention Before Its Time	p. 241
Looking for the Fence Posts	p. 253
Constructivism: What's in It for You?	p. 265
What's All The Fuss?	p. 271
Letters to the Editor	p. 277
Spirituality Reconsidered	p. 279
Fields-of-Flowers Therapy	p. 285
Therapy for a Dying Planet	p. 295
Gender Riddles: New Answers To Old Questions?
Warning: Family Therapy May Be Hazardous to Your Health	p. 309
The Mother Knot	p. 319
The Codependent Cinderella Who Loves Too Much... Fights Back	p. 331
Letters to the Editor	p. 339
Women Treating Men	p. 343
The Birth of a Movement	p. 349
The Politics of Mood	p. 359
Letters to the Editor	p. 366
The Masculine Mystique	p. 369
A Day for Men	p. 383
The Pulse of the Family: Inside the Experience of Change
The Mother Journey	p. 399
The Facts of Life	p. 409
You Can Go Home Again	p. 421
Gemini	p. 431
My Mother's Keeper	p. 437
Good-Bye...	p. 443
To Die At Home	p. 447
Sealing Out the Night	p. 455
Being There: Charting the Therapist's Journey
Behind the Mask	p. 473
The Creative Leap	p. 479
It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing	p. 485
Circus Maximus	p. 495
Why I Love Private Practice	p. 503
Going Private	p. 507
Coming of Age as a Clinician	p. 517
The Screening Room: Family Therapy at the Movies
Terms of Enmeshment	p. 535
Catching Falling Elephants	p. 541
Standing by	p. 547
Scaring the Pants on You	p. 553
Mother Love	p. 557
References	p. 563
Index	p. 571
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