Family Therapy in Clinical Practice

ISBN-13: 9781568210117 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 584 str.

Murray Bowen

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When Bowen was a student and practitioner of classical psychoanalysis at the Menninger Clinic, he became engrossed in understanding the process of schizophrenia and its relationship to mother-child symbiosis. Between the years 1950 and 1959 at Menninger, and later at the National Institute of Mental Health (as the first chief of family studies), he worked clinically with over 5000 schizophrenics and their families. This extensive experience was a time of fruition for his thinking as he began to conceptualise human behaviour as emerging from within the context of a family system. Later, at Georgetown University Medical School, Bowen worked to extend the application of his ideas to the neurotic family system. Initially he saw his work as an amplification and modification of Freudian theory, but later viewed it as revolutionary and distinct from that paradigm. Bowen has become one of the most renowned theorists and therapists in the field of family work, and this book encompasses the breadth and depth of his contributions.