Family Healing: Strategies for Hope and Understanding

by Salvador Minuchin and Michael P. Nichols

Book Overview

At the center of people's lives is the family, which can be and should be a haven from the harshness of the outside world. Unfortunately, the source of people's greatest hope for happiness often turns out to be the source of their worst disappointments. Now, the family therapist, Salvador Minuchin unravels the knots of family dynamics against the background of his own odyssey from an extended Argentinian Jewish family to his innovative treatment of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684855739
• ISBN13: 9780684855738
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Minuchin is the man; if he can't do it, no-one can

The nation's pioneer in family counseling and therapy shares his priceless wisdom with us in this book. Minuchin is a towering figure whose genius and brilliance will continue to help many families save themselves. Thank you Dr. Minuchin for writing this book.

since it's by minuchin, it's a winner...but...

i read this about two months ago, so take this with a grain of salt. then again, maybe it's better, cause here's what's stuck with me. it was a good book, but it really helped that i was into salvador minuchin already before reading it. if you don't know him, he's quite an icon, and i recommend watching some of his videos, because they really point to his genius, and for me, were the inspiration to want to delve deeper into his work.this book tells a lot of minuchin's history, his development as a doctor and therapist, some early strengths of his as well as foibles and weaknesses (interesting stuff!), and just a fair amount of stuff you'd expect in any 3/4ths of the way decent autobiography.anyway, my mind is shot so i'll leave this book in your hands. if you're interesting in minuchin, i don't think you'll regret reading this book, but i wouldn't recommend it as an intro to him or his work...