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Family Therapy: An Intimate History
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.89156
EAN: 9780393703801
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0393703800
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2001-09
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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A personal history of family therapy through the eyes of one of its most accomplished practitioners. Lynn Hoffman has been called the "Forrest Gump" of family therapy. Whenever something important was going on, she was there. For the first time, Hoffman gives a history of family therapy as seen from the inside. Learn from this internationally known theorist how family therapy has evolved and thrived over the past fifty years.
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Rating:  - What every therapist needs to know
Lynn Hoffman is one of the most brilliant writers and teachers in the field of family therapy. Few have her capacity make the difficult comprehensible and the obtuse theoretical accessible. This book like her earlier ones brings together the diverse roots of family therapy and their impact on present and future directions. There is no other work like it. The best family therapy book of this year.
Rating: - Postmodern Philosophy: An Autobiography
Part memoir, part text, this book will provide practitioners and psycho-historians trying to decipher and understand the cultural contributions of family therapy with their own version of the Rosetta Stone. Family Therapy:An Intimate History offers readers a map of the key concepts and theories that will guide our thinking and practices into the 21st century. This book is a much needed sequel to family therapy's other flagship (also authored by Hoffman), Foundations of Family Therapy. In Foundations ... Read More
Rating:  - Going Back to the Roots
There is a new generation of professionals working with families that will greatly benefit from Lynn Hoffman's newest book. Lynn was fortunate enough to be at "the right place at the right time", when the family therapy pioneers started its development. Lynn was never totally in and neither totally out. This provides her with a unique lens to write about the development of the therapy with families. She entered through the backdoor and slowly established herself as one of the best poetic writers ... Read More
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