Family Worlds: A Psychosocial Approach to Family Life

ISBN-13: 9781138523432 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 300 str.

Gerald Handel

Opis

How does a family function? How does a family make a distinctive life of its own while living according to the values of society? In what ways is a family a unit when all its members have personalities of their own? How can we understand diversity among families?Robert D

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Contents

Foreword vii

Preface, 1974

Preface

Author's Note

Introduction to the Transaction Edition
Ralph LaRossa

1 The Family as a Psychosocial Organization

2 The Clarks: Flight from Insecurity

3 The Lansons: Equanimity and Its Vicissitudes

4 The Littletons: The Dynamics of Disconnectedness

5 The Newbolds: The Demonstration of Constructive Independence

6 The Steeles: Comforts and Crises of Companionship

7 The Five Families: A Comparative Summary

Appendix: Some Comments on Method

Index

O autorze

Gerald Handel