©1979 Stuart Lieberman
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Lieberman, Stuart
Transgenerational family therapy.
Family psychotherapy
I. Title
616.8'915 RC488.5
ISBN 0-85664-776-4
Printed in Great Britain by Biddies Ltd, Guildford, Surrey
CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction 13
Definitions
The Family as a Client
The Field of Family Therapy
The Family as a Four or Five-Generation System
2. Antecedents of Transgenerational Theory 21
Alfred Adler
Sigmund Freud
Melanie Klein
General Systems Theory
Murray Bowen
Norman Paul
Other Influences
Summary
3. Transgenerational Theory 45
Introduction
Inherited, Moulded and Constitutive Features
Transgenerational Passage
The Passage of Behaviour, Belief and Tradition
Bonds and Bonding
Families in Collision: The Choice of a Spouse
Family losses, Family Replacements
Family Secrets
Family Evolution
4. The Geneogram: The Family Tree as a Tool 68
Construction of the Geneogram
The Process of Geneogram Construction
The Need for Detail
The Geneogram as a Tool
Summary
5. Transgenerational Analysis 95
Sibling Positions and Family Constellation
The Importance and Timing of Entries and Exits
Clues to Replacements in Families: Names and Resemblances
Family Collision and Differences in Family Culture
Family Patterns
Secrecy and Boundaries
6. The Family Therapy Process 114
The Referral
Educating the Family
Therapeutic Alliance: The Contract
Beginning Therapy Sessions
Ending Therapy
Summary
7. Family Therapy Strategies 132
The Structure of the Sessions
Task Setting: Work Outside the Session
Techniques within the Family Therapy Session
8. Family Therapy With One Family Member: A Clinical Case Study 160
9. Family Therapy With a Marital Couple: A Clinical Case Study 175
10. Family Therapy With a Nuclear Family: A Clinical Case Study 193
11. A Training Analysis for Family Therapists 212
A Search for Identity: My Transgenerational Influences
A Family Training Analysis
Family Training Exercises and Structured Experiences
Author Index 231 (not yet mounted)
Subject Index 232
Dedication
To the Mizuses, the Liebermans arid the hybrids they produced