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The Pathological Family : Postwar America and the Rise of Family Therapy /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Weinstein, Deborah, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the power of the family
  • Personality factories
  • "Systems everywhere" : schizophrenia, cybernetics, and the double bind
  • The culture concept at work
  • Observational practices and natural habitats
  • Visions of family life.