The Invisible Web: Gender Patterns in Family Relationships (The Guilford Family Therapy Series) - Softcover

Walters, Marianne; Carter, Betty; Papp, Peggy; Silverstein, Olga

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898624827 ISBN 13: 9780898624823

Publisher: Guilford Press, 1992

Synopsis

The Invisible Web Bringing new focus to the subject, THE INVISIBLE WEB investigates the family from a feminist perspective. Using the lens of gender, connections between mothers and daughters, fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, and husbands and wives are analyzed and given new meaning. The authors evaluate and redefine family transitions such as divorce, single-parent and female-headed households, and remarri Full description

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Review

"I adopted THE INVISIBLE WEB last semester for my Women's Studies course on psychology of women, and found it to be a perfect teaching text. It offers the best combination of family systems thinking and feminist issues that I have seen, and, perhaps most important, my students loved it! The case studies are immediately engaging and the issues they bring to life help to initiate productive class discussion. I intend to use it again and recommend it highly to other Women's Studies professors." --Naomi Rosenthal, Ph.D., SUNY at Old Westbury

"Like a country quilt, THE INVISIBLE WEB pulls together the living thought and practice of four leading women in the family therapy field, as they apply a feminist lens to their own treatment methods. This is not only a major event, but a unique one...'' --Lynn Hoffman, M.S.W.

"INVISIBLE WEB, by the leading foremothers in the field of family therapy, is on my most highly recommended short list of readings in my family and couples therapy courses. Sparkling with clinical insights and case illustrations on gender dilemmas in relationships, it is always a favorite of students, men and women alike." --Froma Walsh, Ph.D., Professor, School of Social Service Administration and Department of Psychiatry, The University of Chicago & Co-Director, Chicago Center for Family Health

About the Author

Marianne Walters, MSW, is Founder and current Director of The Family Therapy Practice Center in Washington, DC, and Chair of the Women's Project, Ms. Walters participates in family therapy training in a wide range of settings in the United States and internationally. During her tenure as Executive Director of the Training Center at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic and since, she has held faculty positions at a number of schools of social work and psychiatry. On the Editorial Board of the Journal of Family Therapy, she has contributed chapters to edited books on family therapy.

Betty Carter, MSW, the first woman in the field to head a major training institute, is co-founder and Director of the Family Institute of Westchester. The author of numerous articles and book chapters, she is a teacher and clinical supervisor, and also conducts a large clinical practice in Mount Vernon, New York.

Peggy Papp, MSW, is a senior training supervisor and director of the Depression Project at the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York City. A former board member of Family Process, she was a cofounder of the Women's Project in Family Therapy. She was an associate director of the Center for Family Learning and has served on the faculty of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic and the Family Studies Center of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Ms. Papp's innovative contributions to the field of family therapy have been recognized with awards from the American Family Therapy Academy and the American Association for Marital and Family Therapy.

Olga Silverstein, MSW, is a senior supervisor and faculty member at the Ackerman Institute for the Family. She has lectured and taught internationally and maintains an extensive private practice in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0898624827
• ISBN 13: 9780898624823
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 422