A family presents their 17-year-old daughter who attempted suicide to Dr. Minuchin. Minuchin discovers from the father that he and his wife have been psychologically divorced since the birth of the daughter, and the mother states that she still feels single. Exploring the spouse and parental subsystems gives a map of the family. Minuchin attempts to construct an alternative family organization in which the adolescent children form a healing subsystem.
See Virginia Satir at her best!
This program from the Virginia Satir Global Network streams a set of 10 videotapes that is a complete recording of a workshop Virginia Satir conducted in 1986 at Chico State University in California. It centers on demonstrations of family therapy including her signature methods of family sculpting and parts parties.
A transcript and study guide is included.
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In this dramatic recreation of keymoments in the two-year course of therapy with David C., a 31-year-old patient referred by his physician, pioneering therapist James F. Masterson demonstrates -- for the first time -- how to diagnose and treat one of the yet unclassified in the DSM system, this disorder, Masterson clearly shows, too often presents as an intractable case of borderline personality disorder.