The Pathological Family by Deborah Weinstein PAPERBACK 9780801478215

The Pathological Family\nby Deborah Weinstein\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Deborah Weinstein\nTitle: The Pathological Family\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Psychotherapy: couples and families\nPublisher: MB - Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2013\nISBN-13: 9780801478215\nISBN-10: 0801478219\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nWhile iconic popular images celebrated family life during the 1950s and 1960s, American families were simultaneously regarded as potentially menacing sources of social disruption. The history of family therapy makes the complicated power of the family at midcentury vividly apparent. Clinicians developed a new approach to psychotherapy that claimed to locate the cause and treatment of mental illness in observable patterns of family intera.