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Family Therapy

A Context for Child Psychiatry

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Family therapist is not a euphonious term; Janet Malcolm (1978) complained that it sounded like a job description for a funeral home director. It does not have an authoritative sound; neither does it conjure up the impressive academic and research aura associated with such cognate disciplines as clinical psychology and psychiatry. Indeed, practitioners of this approach are always redefining themselves as structural or strategic therapists, systemic consultants, and constructivists, to name a few aliases. What this indicates is a tension in the field about what is central to the activity of family therapy: Is it united by a broad concern with the family (in all its social, cultural, and historical dimensions, and its clinical and developmental aspects) or divided by competing methods of therapy (with their diverse interviewing techniques and interventions, and their disparate views of the nature of the family, of change, and of therapy)?

If we take a transpersonal view of the family, all forms of mental illness must be considered logical adaptations to a deviant and illogical transpersonal system.

Selvini Palazzoli (1963/1978, p. 193)

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    Vincenzo F. DiNicola

  2. Family Psychiatry Service and Adolescent Day Care Program, Royal Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, K1Z 7K4, Canada

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DiNicola, V.F. (1990). Family Therapy. In: Treatment Strategies in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2599-2_12

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