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