Ebook: Destructive Myths in Family Therapy: How to Overcome Barriers to Communication by Seeing and Saying - A Humanistic Perspective

Exposes destructive patterns of communication within family cultures and provides strategies for promoting more open dialogue among family members. 

• Equips family therapists to help clients see the barriers they place in the way of healthy communication, and adopt more constructive alternatives
• Provides activities designed to spark open dialogue between therapist and clients, strengthening the therapeutic relationship and facilitating family interaction
• Includes communication strategies for reversing disengagement, defusing power struggles, overcoming sibling rivalry, disentangling marital problems and more
• Offers a new understanding of family dynamics, an area in which many family therapists want to improve their skills but have struggled to find a text to guide them in doing so

Content:
Chapter 1 Blindness, or With Eyes Wide Shut (pages 6–17):
Chapter 2 Distortions, or It's All for the Best! (pages 18–32):
Chapter 3 Insight through Therapy, or To See or Not To See (pages 33–51):
Chapter 4 Making Therapy Work, or Practice What You Preach (pages 52–72):
Chapter 5 Homeostatic Messages, or Don't Rock the Boat! (pages 77–93):
Chapter 6 Lack of Authenticity, or Keep a Stiff Upper Lip (pages 94–110):
Chapter 7 Inequality, or What Can You Expect From a Man? (pages 111–125):
Chapter 8 Belittling, or Who Do You Think You Are? (pages 126–141):
Chapter 9 Bookkeeping, or Just You Wait (pages 142–154):
Chapter 10 Family Rivalry, or Divide and Conquer (pages 155–168):
Chapter 11 In Lieu of Conclusion: Myths in the Service of Psychopathology (pages 169–175):