Turning Points: Treating Families in Transition and Crisis / Edition 1

by Frank Pittman

Overview

"Turning Points is filled with the profundity of common sense. ... Pittman captures the absurdity of family life and reminds us that therapy can be fun."—Peggy Papp, ACSW, Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy.

One of family therapy's wittiest and most sensible writers uses the family crisis as a launching point for discussing the entire range of events that can disrupt marriage and family life. A family crisis is heralded by symptomatic behavior, such as school phobia, adolescent rebellion, or depression, that trips up the family in its developmental path. Pittman show how the therapist can make the most of these crisis, creatively using whatever is at hand to pull the family through the chaos.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393700404
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	05/17/1987
Series:	Professional Books Series
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Frank Pittman, M.D., was a psychiatrist and family therapist in Atlanta, Georgia. A renowned author of many books, he also wrote a regular column, "Ask Dr. Frank", which appeared in Psychology Today, and was a regular contributor to Psychotherapy Networker. He died in 2012.