Families and Family Therapy

Minuchin, Salvador

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“…Our observations appear to corroborate Bruch's theory (1973) about anorexia nervosa, insofar as it concerns body image, inability to identify correctly bodily sensations, and control as a central issue in anorexia nervosa, and also the theories that formulate anorexia nervosa as an individuation disorder (e.g., Goodsit, 1985;Guidano, 1987;Minuchin, 1974).…”

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“…Anorexia nervosa is often conceptualized as an individuation disorder (e.g., Goodsitt, 1985;Guidano, 1987;Krueger & Schofield, 1986;Mahler et al 1975;Minuchin, 1974). In this perspective, research studies have shown that the onset and maintenance of anorexia nervosa is related to a specific pattern of rigid interactions within the family (Minuchin, Baker, Rosman, Milman, & Todd, 1975;Minuchin, Rosman, & Baker, 1978).…”

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The Anorectic Dance: Towards a New Understanding of Inner-Experience Through Psychotherapeutic Movement

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Coimbra

2011

Am J Dance Ther

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A 6-month body-oriented psychotherapeutic intervention project was conducted with a group of seven hospitalized female patients diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa. This intervention worked as a first pilot study integrated into a larger medium-term project, which had as its main goals to collect relevant material on the experiential and semantic levels of the body experience in Anorexia nervosa, as well as on the assessment of the movement characteristics and preferences revealed by the patients. Data collection included movement observation and verbal discourse analysis. The results seem to support some theoretical assumptions and allow the interpretation of empirical findings. On the basis of this study, we propose some considerations and implications for dance/movement therapy intervention with anorectic patients, founded on aesthetic experience and developmental-constructivist perspectives.

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Section: The Aesthetic Experiencementioning

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The Anorectic Dance: Towards a New Understanding of Inner-Experience Through Psychotherapeutic Movement

Padrão

Coimbra

2011

Am J Dance Ther

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“…Some of its ideas have in part been integrated only by systemic therapy (Boszormenyi-Nagy & Framo, 1965;Minuchin, 1974). Embodiment takes place directly as visible action in front of our eyes.…”

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Embodied Enactive Dance/Movement Therapy

Koch

Fischman²

2011

Am J Dance Ther

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Dance/movement therapy may be conceptualized as an embodied and enactive form of psychotherapy. The embodied enactive approach looks at individuals as living systems characterized by plasticity and permeability (momentto-moment adaptations within the self and toward the environment), autonomy, sense-making, emergence, experience, and striving for balance. Enaction and embodiment emphasize the roles that body motion and sensorimotor experience play in the formation of concepts and abstract thinking. A theoretical framework and a perspective on professional practice in dance/movement therapy are herein offered as influenced by interdisciplinary embodied and enactive approaches deriving from cognitive sciences and phenomenology. The authors assert that dance/ movement therapy, enaction, and embodiment fruitfully contribute to one another.From its very origin, the body-mind relation, interpersonal relations, and the relatedness of the person to the environment have been central to the clinical practice of dance/movement therapy, in which movement and dance as essential Sabine C. Koch and Diana Fischman equally and jointly contributed to the article.

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“…Salvador Minuchin (1974) offered a transaction-based theory regarding how families organize or structure their lives; these arrangements, usually unstated and often unrecognized by the participants, govern their interactions. Family subsystems, boundaries, alignments and coalitions within the family were investigated.…”

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The Revolution and Evolution of Family Therapy and Family Psychology

Goldenberg

2009

The Wiley‐Blackwell Handbook of Family Psychology

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The revolution is over! Long live the revolution! The revolution we refer to, in this case, began a half century ago, when a number of leading scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and social scientists proposed a new paradigm -one that emphasized systems, a cybernetic epistemology, and in general an outlook that underscored the role that context and interaction play in understanding individual behavior. Within this new conceptual leap, each person's experiences, attitudes, and sets of problems could now be defined as occurring within a framework such as a family. Rather than seek out the person's intrapsychic problems, clinicians were now urged to direct the attention to the family context in which the behavior occurred and to the interpersonal sequences taking place between family members. Focusing on what was occurring in the present as families interacted, and how each participant influenced (and in turn is influenced by) other family members, began to replace the search for explanations of why problems developed as a result of past trauma. As the outlook of reciprocal causality (or circular causality) replaced linear explanations, clinicians learned to attend to the dysfunctional family unit and not merely the symptomatic person (Goldenberg & Goldenberg, 2008).During its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, as the family systems outlook gained prominence, a number of seasoned clinicians, formerly psychodynamic in viewpoint, converted to its tenets. They, as well as many fledgling clinicians, were attracted to its basic notion that behavior occurs in context, that problems exist between people rather than within each person, and that seeking to uncover and gain insight into unconscious conflicts was not nearly as therapeutic as helping families change ongoing dysfunctional interactions. Fraenkel (2005) recalls from his student days, after becoming convinced of the therapeutic worth of systems intervention, that "family therapy was an unstoppable revolutionary movement, which would radically change the mental health field, and even our larger society" (p. 33).

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Families and Family Therapy

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The Revolution and Evolution of Family Therapy and Family Psychology

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