A Systems View of Family Interaction and Psychopathology

  • Peter Steinglass
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Part of the Applied Clinical Psychology book series (NSSB)

Abstract

In this book, we have taken on a challenging task: to examine key links between family organizational and behavioral variables and the major types of psychopathology. Whenever one approaches a subject of such inherent complexity, it is critically important that it be done within the perspective of a clearly articulated theoretical orientation. Otherwise, it is all too easy to become lost in a flood of subjectively powerful data, a victim of empirical speculations.

Keywords

Living System Family Therapy Family System Core Concept Family Interaction 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Peter Steinglass
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  1. 1.Center for Family Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesGeorge Washington University, School of MedicineUSA

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