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Why do families and couples come in for therapy? Why do they request help from a therapist? At first glance one may assume that it is to improve the relationships in the marital or in the family system. However, in the course of over twenty years of experience with couples and families I have realized that many other motives subserve their intentions.
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Rubinstein, D., 1971, “A Developmental Approach to family therapy”, in: Proceedings V World Congress of Psychiatry, Excerpta Medica, Amsterdam.
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Rubinstein, D. (1985). On Initiating and Developing the Process of Family Therapy. In: Pichot, P., Berner, P., Wolf, R., Thau, K. (eds) Psychiatry the State of the Art. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4697-5_14
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