Doing Contextual Therapy: An Integrated Model for Working with Individuals, Couples, and Families

Author: Peter GoldenthalPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyHardcover:ISBN 10: 0393702081ISBN 13: 978-0393702088This book explains this deeply ethical approach of contextual therapy in practical terms and demonstrates its practice in extensive cases. From the Back Cover Contextual theory, as developed by Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy, has been hugely influential in the family therapy field; the contextual approach has become a model of human experience and family life whose goals are widely admired, assumptions widely endorsed, and concepts widely borrowed. And yet, for many clinicians, its practice has been a mystery. Doing Contextual Therapy is designed as a workshop between covers to remove this mystery. Peter Goldenthal explains Boszormenyi-Nagy's deeply ethical approach in practical terms. He briefly touches on theoretical underpinnings before setting out to answer practitioners' clinical and practical questions: Wh