Turning Points: Treating Families in Transition and Crisis

by Frank Pittman and Frank S. Pittman

Book 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393700402
• ISBN13: 9780393700404
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

The Best Book Yet

As a psychotherapist, I have always admired the writings of Frank Pittman. So when I started reading this book, I knew it was going to be a good book. What I didn't know is that it was going to be the best psychology book I have ever read (and I have read many of them.) So much so that despite having read this book twice, once on a while I still read some of the chapters again.