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Foundations of family therapy : a conceptual framework for systems change /

Hoffman, Lynn.

Foundations of family therapy : a conceptual framework for systems change / Lynn Hoffman. - [New York] : Basic Books, 1981. - xv, 377 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: Behind the looking glass -- Early research on family groups -- The dynamics of social fields -- The second cybernetics -- Typologies of family structure -- The concept of family paradigms -- The pathological triad -- The rules of congruence for triads -- Triads and the management of conflict -- The simple bind and discontinuous change -- The thing in the bushes -- Breaking the symptomatic cycle -- Family therapy and the great originals -- Historically oriented approaches to family therapy -- Ecological, structural and strategic approaches -- The systemic model -- Theories about therapeutic binds -- Issues on the cutting edge -- Epilogue: Toward a new epistemology.

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