Research Catalog

Title

Marriage as a search for healing : theory, assessment, and therapy / Jerry M. Lewis.

Author

Lewis, Jerry M., 1924-

Publication

New York : Brunner/Mazel, c1997.

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Details

Description

xi, 274 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Through the use of a fluid and flexible approach that builds on the nuances of healing interaction - without diminishing the essential quality of conflict - Dr. Lewis demonstrates the power of therapeutic alliance in establishing trust, instilling hope, and finding relief. Practitioners and students alike will find in Marriage as a Search for Healing a host of new ideas to further inform and inspire clinical thinking.

Subject

• Interpersonal Relations
• Marital Therapy
• Marital psychotherapy
• Marital conflict
• Communication in marriage
• Conflict, Psychological
• Family Conflict

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-268) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. At the Beginning -- 2. Out of All the Millions of People ... -- 3. Enduring Interactions and Collective Illusions -- 4. Competent Marriages and the Continuum of Marital Competence -- 5. A Theory of Marital Systems -- 6. Assessment: First Contacts -- 7. Assessment: A Structured Approach -- 8. Marital Therapy: Initial Considerations -- 9. Marital Therapy: Therapeutic Effects of the Assessment and Stabilizing the System -- 10. Marital Therapy: Teaching Relationship Skills.

ISBN

0876308310 (hardcover)

LCCN

^^^96054242^

OCLC

• 36158639
• SCSB-11579546

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library