The Family Crucible: The Intense Experience of Family Therapy - Softcover

Napier, Augustus Y., PhD; Whitaker, Carl A., M.D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060914890 ISBN 13: 9780060914899

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2018

Synopsis

The classic groundbreaking book on family therapy by acclaimed experts Augustus Y. Napier, Ph.D., and Carl Whitaker, M.D.

This extraordinary book presents scenarios of one family’s therapy experience and explains what underlies each encounter. You will discover the general patterns that are common to all families—stress, polarization and escalation, scapegoating, triangulation, blaming, and the diffusion of identity—and you will gain a vivid understanding of the intriguing field of family therapy.

“If you have a troubled marriage, a troubled child, a troubled self, if you’re in therapy or think that there’s no help for your predicament, The Family Crucible will give you insights . . . that are remarkably fresh and helpful.”—New York Times Book Review

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Review:

If you have a troubled marriage, a troubled child, a troubled self, if you re in therapy or think that there s no help for your predicament, The Family Crucible will give you insights . . . that are remarkably fresh and helpful. --New York Times Book Review

About the Author:

Augustus Y. Napier was born in Decatur, Georgia, in 1938 and graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in English. After deciding to become a therapist through a personal therapy experience, he earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of North Carolina. During an internship in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he began to work with Dr. Whitaker as a student co-therapist, an experience which formed the basis of this book. Dr. Napier later served on the faculties of the Psychiatry Department and the Child and Family Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin. He now directs The Family Workshop, a family therapy training institute in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works frequently with his wife, Margaret, who is also a family therapist. A frequent consultant, he is the author of numerous papers and of The Fragile Bond, published by Harper & Row in 1988. The Napiers have three children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0060914890
• ISBN 13: 9780060914899
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320