A Systemic Harpoon Into Family Games: Preventive Interventions in Therapy

by Giuliana Prata

Overview

Published in 1990, A Systematic Harpoon Into Family Games is a valuable contribution to the field of Family Therapy, using games that were utilised in a workshop in Finland, August 1986, organized by the Family Therapists' Association and the Association for Mental Health. This book was written for professionals who every day, within either the public or the private sector, meet families, couples, or individual patients. The author’s main concern was to supply less experienced colleagues with a working tool which could help them on a clinical level.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138004771
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/09/2014
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xiii

1 Introduction to a Systemic Style of Counseling 1

Psychoanalysis as a Therapeutic Instrument Designed for the Analyst-Patient Dyad 6

The Symptom as a "Move" in the Family "Game" 8

2 The Telephone Chart 17

Hypothesis and Telephone-Chart Hypotheses 19

The Problem of the Referring Person 19

The Problem of the Sibling as the Referring Person 24

The "Germ Barrier" 34

The "Withdrawal of Significant Ones" 46

3 The Working Method 64

The First Session 67

Testing the Motivations and Expectations of the Family 85

The Secret 88

The Disappearances 92

Poor Families and the Disappearances 96

The Written Memorandum 102

4 The Second Session 104

5 The Third Session 125

6 When the Therapist Should Say No 139

7 Adoptive Parents: Their Particular Problem and Problems Created by the Specialists 155

8 Concluding Remarks 164

References 168

Index 173