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Title: Family Therapy: An Intimate History by Lynn Hoffman ISBN: 0393703800 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67
Rating: 5
Summary: What every therapist needs to know
Comment: 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: 5
Summary: Postmodern Philosophy: An Autobiography
Comment: 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 of Family Therapy Hoffman presented all the major developments and types of practice that have taken place in the profession in the last half century (e.g., systems thinking, cybernetics, structural family therapy, etc.). In her latest effort she points out what I've come to think of as the "cracks in the foundation" that have resulted in our seeking new voices and more collaborative models of practice that put the voices of our clients before the voices of our theories. Ironically, driving this shift in thought and approach to the work are some very complex thinking and erudite concepts that fall under tent terms with names like narrative, constructivism, social contstructivism, and social constructionsim. An alternative title for this volume could be Postmodernism: An Autobiography. Hoffman unpacks the history of the ideas and events that brought postmodern thinking and concepts into the therapy arena. Documenting its migration from philosophy, biology, literary critisism, cultural anthropology, and other disciplines Hoffman provides some of the best interpretation and commentary available on the ideas of such heady thinkers as Foucault, Derrida, Bateson, and Maturana and Varela. The wide angle lens Hoffman uses to examine these developments in the field are punctuated with intimate portraits of some of the most tender and useful therapy conversations that students and (both new and seasoned) practitioners will find in print. One particularily moving example of this sort of storytelling is "The Christmas Tree Story" about a young man and his lover's attempt to use his death and dying from AIDS as a way of celebrating his life, honoring their relationship, and reaching out to his parents and family. What makes this book so special is not the poetic voice of Hoffman's writing or intellectual rigor she brings to bear on all her subjects, rather it's the intimate relationship she establishes with her reader and personal insights she provides into the developments she's discussing. This is generous writing from one of family therapy's most brilliant thinkers and one its most decent and generous citizens.-Jonathan Diamond, author Narrative Means to Sober Ends
Rating: 4
Summary: Going Back to the Roots
Comment: 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 of the family therapy literature. It is a personal account, seasoned with the historical struggles of a new discipline.
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Title: Conversation Language and Possibilities: A Postmodern Approach to Therapy by Harlene Andersen, Harlene Anderson ISBN: 0465038050 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $47.00 |
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Title: The Tactics of Change : Doing Therapy Briefly by Richard Fisch, John H. Weakland, Lynn Segal, John Weakland ISBN: 0875895212 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: June, 1982 List Price(USD): $38.00 |
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Title: Tales of Solutions: A Collection of Hope-Inspiring Stories by Insoo Kim Berg, Yvonne M. Dolan ISBN: 0393703207 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 15 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Playful Approaches to Serious Problems: Narrative Therapy With Children and Their Families by Jennifer Freeman, David Epston, Dean Lobovits ISBN: 0393702294 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Manufacturing Victim: What the Psychology Industry Is Doing to People by Dr Tana Dineen, Tana, Dr. Dineen ISBN: 1552070328 Publisher: Robert Davies Multimedia Pub. Date: 25 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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