Psychotherapy with Families: An Analytic Approach

194 Pages·2015·26.558 MB·English

by  Sally J. Box, Beta Copley, Jeanne Magagna, Errica Moustaki

Psychology Revivals
Psychotherapy with Families
Originally published in 1981, this study is the outcome of a clinical work-
shop based in the Adolescent Department at the Tavistock Clinic; its mem-
bers at the time shared a tradition and interest in applying psychoanalytic
principles to the understanding of groups and institutions and believed in the
crucial relevance of these in work with families. It is written with the general
reader in mind as well as those who work specifically in the field of family
therapy or psychoanalysis.
The approach is based on two particular developments; that of Object Rela-
tions Psychoanalytic practice, derived especially from the work of Freud and
Melanie Klein; and the application of this to the understanding of Group
Relations following the work of W.R. Bion and others, such as A.K. Rice and
Pierre Turquet. It thus embraces the idea of the family as a system and
includes attempts to understand the processes involved in such a system. But,
unlike other comparable approaches, this one implies working with the group
dynamics of the family, especially in terms of the way the family members
perceive and engage the therapists. The attempt is to create a space for the
family to relive and think about conflicts as they emerge in the therapeutic
setting. Analytic theory is matched by much clinical material, and a glossary
defines the key concepts.
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Psychotherapy with Families
An analytic approach
Edited by
Sally Box, Beta Copley, Jeanne Magagna
and Errica Moustaki
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PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH
FAMILIES
An analytic approach
Sally Box,
Beta Copley, Jeanne Magagna and
Errica Moustaki
ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL
London, Boston and Henley
First published in 1981
by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd
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9 Park Street, Boston, Mass. 02108, USA and
Broadway House, Newtown Road,
Henley-on-Thames, Oxon RG9 1EN
Printed in Great Britain by
St. Edmundsbury Press
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
© Sally Box 1981
No part of this book may be reproduced in
any form without permission from the
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passages in criticism.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Psychotherapy with families.
1. Family psychotherapy. 2. Psychoanalysis.
I. Box, Sally.
RC488.5.P79 616.89'156 81-7320
ISBN 0-7100-0854-6
To our patients without whom this book could not have been written
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Contributors x
Introduction: Space for thinking in families
Sally Box 1
1 The family and its dynamics 9
Margot Waddell
2 An outline of the history and current status of
family therapy 25
Susan Zawada
3 Introducing families to family work 35
Beta Copley
4 Re-enactment as an unwitting professional
response to family dynamics 48
Ronald Britton
5 Working with the dynamics of the session 59
Sally Box
6 Making space for parents 75
Anna Halton and Jeanne Magagna
7 Psychic pain and psychic damage 93
Gianna Henry
8 The micro-environment 105
Arthur Hyatt Williams
9 The aftermath of murder 120
Roger Kennedy and Jeanne Magagna