UID:
almahu_9949597655202882
Format:
1 online resource :
,
illustrations.
ISBN:
9780801468155 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry
Content:
While popular images celebrated family life during the 50s and 60s, American families were simultaneously regarded as potentially menacing sources of social disruption. The history of family therapy makes the complicated power of the family at mid-century vividly apparent. Clinicians developed a new approach to psychotherapy that claimed to locate the cause and treatment of mental illness in observable patterns of family interaction and communication rather than in individual psyches. Drawing on cybernetics, systems theory, and the social and behavioral sciences, they ambitiously aimed to cure schizophrenia and stop juvenile delinquency.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2013.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780801451416
Language:
English
URL:
Cornell scholarship online
