- Topic Areas:
- Family Therapy | Family Therapy: Families with Children
- Bundle:
- The Minuchin Archives - Style of the Family Therapist - Full Set
- Categories:
- The Minuchin Archives
- Duration:
- 35 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- A session with Dr. Minuchin as he works with an Italian immigrant family with five children. The family began therapy as the daughter, 16, was diagnosed with anorexia two years previously and the symptoms were still present. From the first moments of the session, the mother’s undisputed power emerges, leading to a polemic between belonging and autonomy.
- Topic Areas:
- Family Therapy | Family Therapy: Blended Families
- Bundle:
- The Minuchin Archives - Style of the Family Therapist - Full Set
- Categories:
- The Minuchin Archives
- Duration:
- 1 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- A written introduction to the topic of blended families. The difference in subsystems is described, as well as the effect these can have on a family.
- Topic Areas:
- Disempowering Families | Family Therapy | Family Therapy: Families with Children
- Bundle:
- The Minuchin Archives - Style of the Family Therapist - Full Set
- Categories:
- The Minuchin Archives
- Duration:
- 56 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- This session with Dr. Minuchin is with the family of a 12-year-old boy who has been hospitalized in a psychiatric unit for children. There are two disturbed systems that Dr. Minuchin addresses in this session. One is the family who needs to change. The other is the psychiatric unit where the child is hospitalized, that in hopes will be perturbed by the intervention.
- Topic Areas:
- Working with Welfare Families
- Bundle:
- The Minuchin Archives - Style of the Family Therapist - Full Set
- Categories:
- The Minuchin Archives
- Duration:
- 8 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- Dr. Minuchin presents segments from three cases involving families who were receiving social services provided by government agencies. In these segments we will see how the entrance of well meaning helpers into these families serves to disempower rather than empower the parents, and further disrupts the effective functioning of the family unit.
- Topic Areas:
- Working with Welfare Families
- Bundle:
- The Minuchin Archives - Style of the Family Therapist - Full Set
- Categories:
- The Minuchin Archives
- Duration:
- 26 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- In this session, Dr. Minuchin works with a couple who has two children, both of whom are in foster care. This case demonstrates ways in which the involvement of multiple systems of care can cause disorganization in a family, if the systems themselves fail to work in sync. In this case, we meet a mother who struggles with drug addiction, which has impacted her ability to care for her children and family.
- Topic Areas:
- Supervision
- Bundle:
- The Minuchin Archives - Style of the Family Therapist - Full Set
- Categories:
- The Minuchin Archives
- Duration:
- 45 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- A young man and his family enter a consultation session after the issue was raised of their son “rubbing his eyes”. The issue being that the young man had recently left a psychiatric hospital for attempting to gouge out his own eye. The intense involvement between mother and son is the matrix within which the son’s obsessive compulsive symptomatology has risen. The fathers evident disengagement from mother and son supports and maintains the over involvement between the young man and his mother.
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