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Informationen zum Autor Daniela Kramer-Moore is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Warwick. A family therapist with many years' experience of working with high risk adolescents and their families, she now heads the post-graduate Psychotherapy Centre at Oranim Academic College, Kiryat Tiv'on, Israel, where she previously led the Masters program in Educational Counselling. Michael Moore is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Warwick. He is a social psychologist with many scholarly publications in the field, and was until recently Head of the Department of Education in Technology and Science at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Klappentext Each family has unique communication habits, yet beneath surface differences common communication patterns arise. Many patterns are healthy, promoting communication that is honest, authentic and tactful. Sometimes, however, habitual responses can develop: 'myths' that become entrenched in the language of an individual family. These Family Defence Mechanisms (FDMs) block healthy communication, instead raising barriers and creating distance. With time pressures at an all-time high and family members spending less time interacting with each other than ever, snippets of homespun wisdom--"it's better not to talk about it;" "better the devil you know"-- become dangerously easy to present as fact. Combining humanist and existentialist perspectives in a new understanding of family dynamics, Destructive Myths in Family Therapy exposes a range of common FDMs, exploring how they can become ingrained negative part of family culture and suggesting strategies for overcoming them. The healthy strategies and group activities in Destructive Myths in Family Therapy engage families in better interaction, helping therapists be better equipped to help clients 'see' the barriers they unconsciously place in the way of change, 'say' things that facilitate resolution rather than resistance, and establish authentic, direct communication within their family unit. Zusammenfassung Family communication is fraught with history! taboo! and tradition. While many family communication patterns can promote authentic! tactful! and honest interaction! some habitual communication patterns can be destructive to open dialogue. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Part I Seeing - The Choices weMake 1 1. Blindness, orWith EyesWide Shut 5 Dangers, Taboos, and Punishments 8 Identified Patients 9 A Continuum of Blindness 10 Total blindness 11 Tunnel vision 11 Partial vision 12 Broad vistas 12 Clear vision 12 Surprise, Surprise! 13 The Irreversibility of Seeing 14 Activities 15 1 Pin the tail 15 2 Blind walk 15 3 Blind spots 16 4 Train ride 16 5 Picture gallery 17 6 To see ourselves as others see us 17 2. Distortions, or It's All for the Best! 18 A Few Ego Defense Mechanisms 20 Family Defense Mechanisms 21 Activities 30 1 Family map 1 30 2 Family map 2 31 3 Family gossip 31 4What do the neighbors think about us? 32 5 Masquerade 32 3. Insight through Therapy, or To See or Not To See 33 The Goals of Therapy 35 Stages of Therapy 37 Stage 1: Insightful recognition of PFPs 37 Stage 2: The implementation of change 40 Stage 3: Evaluation and conclusion 47 Activities 49 1 Family pain mapping 49 2 Genogram 49 3 Roles 50 4 A sack of stones 50 5 Conflict orWhat is this quarrel about? 51 6Windows 51 4. Making TherapyWork, or PracticeWhat You Preach 52 T...
