Abstract" This book… presents a way of understanding health through the'emotional give
and take'of family relationships. It outlines a conceptual approach to emotional disturbance …

However its life spreads into the wider community, there is a sense in which a family is a
bounded universe. The members of a family-parents and their young children-inhabit a …

In the last fifteen years, we have witnessed the growth of a field which posits family as the
unit of study and treatment. How does this affect our view of psychosomatic problems? We …

One of the major breakthroughs in contemporary understanding of the family came through
the work of the family system theorists (Haley, 1968; Minuchin & Montalvo, 1967; Tharp …

In the footsteps of Claude Bernard and Cannon, whose emphasis on the constancy of an
internal milieu is well known, Jackson 1 introduced the concept of" family homeostasis" to …

As individual psychotherapy has stimulated the emergence of a dynamic model of
personality organization (Freud), conjoint family therapy presses for an adequate model of …

The treatment of an entire family, interviewed together regularly as a group, is a new
procedure in psychiatry. Just when Family Therapy originated is difficult to estimate because …

This paper describes a method of family psychotherapy developed as part of a family
research project. The research was based on the theoretical premise" the family as the unit …

FoR. MANY YEARS my own interest has been centered on the variations of the quite
universal institution commonly called The Family. And the still broader perspective has been …

The term, family therapy, refers to a systematic method of psychotherapeutic intervention on
the multiple, interlocking, emotional disorders of a family group. Family therapy, thus …