Dancing with the Family: A Symbolic-Experiential Approach : A Symbolic Experiential Approach

Dancing with the Family presents something of a clinical importance, not to offer an all-encompassing theory of the family therapy. This book emphasize on a dual focus. You will be asked to remain cognizant of the centrality of the person of the therapist, as well as of the evolving process of the therapy. Book Cover......Page 1 Half-Title......Page 2 Title......Page 3 Copyright......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Preface......Page 6 Beginning......Page 9 Searching for Father......Page 13 Shifting Perspectives: Creating an Interactive Set......Page 15 Father Begins to Emerge......Page 23 2 Person of the Therapist: Personal Integrity and Professional Role Structure......Page 25 Personal Integrity......Page 26 Use of Self......Page 28 Responsibility of the Therapist......Page 30 Professional Role Structure......Page 31 Battle for Structure......Page 35 Establish a Metaposition......Page 38 Convening the Clan......Page 39 Expand the Symptoms......Page 40 Battle for initiative......Page 42 Therapeutic Alliance......Page 44 Establishing the Menu......Page 45 Dealing with Impasses......Page 46 4 Symbolic-Experiential Family Therapy......Page 47 Symbol World......Page 48 Symbolic-Experiential Therapy......Page 50 Confusion......Page 53 Experience......Page 55 Growth......Page 56 5 Getting Personal: Challenging Rigidities and Creating Pathways......Page 57 Challenging the Family to Grow......Page 58 6 The Universal Dilemma: Hopeless Men and Hopeful Women......Page 70 Men/Women: The Eternal Dialectic......Page 76 7 The Secret to Unhappiness: Getting What You Want......Page 88 8 Caring Revisited......Page 103 9 The Healthy Family and Normal Pathology......Page 116 Family Life......Page 117 Marriage......Page 119 Parenting......Page 121 10 Which Direction Is Growth? Three-Year Follow-up......Page 123 Revisiting the Family......Page 125 REFERENCES......Page 137 As we settled in for the initial session, there was a sense of tension in the air.