Changing Families: A Family Therapy Reader

Jay Haley

Psychological Corporation

Excerpt from Strategies of PsychotherapyTherapists may range from indignation to squeamishness in their reao tions to the notion of deliberately manipulating the patient as presented in the section on directive therapy. I would caution those who have not tried the kind of techniques Haley describes, or that I have described in another publication, to either try this kind of intervention or speak to a friend who has weathered such an encounter. When Freud discovered transference, he discovered that the patient and therapist were involved in an interactional game that required skill on the therapist's part if both he and the patient were to benefit by the encounter. If the therapist is genuinely interested in helping the patient, and if he is experienced so that he can bring his skill to bear in at least a partially predictable way, then the style of the game he plays with the patient can vary widely and still be helpful. Therapy becomes manipulative, in the opprobrious sense of this term, only when the therapist is using the patient for various covert financial and/ or power reasons that have little to do with the pa tient's best interests.It is an honor to have been asked to write the foreword to this book especially since I believe it to be unique. We have all been in need of it for some time.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Strategies of Psychotherapy (Classic Reprint)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Forgotten Books

Power Tactics of J C

Discus

Milton H. Erickson, M.D. is generally acknowledged to have been the world's leading practitioner of medical hypnosis. His "strategic therapy," using hypnotic techniques with or without actually inducing trance, allows him to get directly to the core of a problem and prescribe a course of action that can lead to rapid recovery.This book provides a comprehensive look at Dr. Erickson's theories in practice, through a series of case studies covering the kinds of problems that are likely to occur at various stages of the human life cycle. The results Dr. Erickson achieves sometimes seem to border on the miraculous, but they are brought about by a finely honed technique used by a wise, intuitive, highly trained psychiatrist-hypnotist whose work is recognized as a major contribution to the field.

Uncommon Therapy (The Norton library) The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D.

W.W.Norton & Co

UNCOMMON THERAPY, THE PSYCHIATRIC TECHNIQUES OF MILTON H. ERICKSON, JAY HALEY.

Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D.

Mental Health

WW Norton & Co.

Directive Family Therapy (Haworth Series in Brief & Solution-Focused Therapies)

Directive family therapy pioneer Jay Haley and Madeleine Richeport-Haley explain their innovative techniques for solving problems Directive Family Therapy is the final work of a widely recognized giant in the international family therapy field. This text is the pre-eminent state-of-the-art sourcebook on practical, innovative techniques to effectively solve problems throughout the life cycle stages. Directive family therapy pioneer Jay Haley, PhD(who passed away in 2007), and, Madeleine Richeport-Haley, PhD provide practitioners with creative directives to clearly identify problems, formulate well-designed treatment plans, and then successfully carry them out to achieve lasting therapeutic change. This essential text explores fascinating case studies illustrating the powerful, highly effective problem solving directives. The work is extensively referenced, and includes a full and complete bibliography of Haley's published works and a list of the authors' collaborative films. Directive Family Therapy presents highly instructive, revelatory stories about working with real life clients and provides dynamic, innovative, and oftentimes surprising solutions to a wide range of specifically detailed problems and clinical issues. All stages and issues in the life cycle are addressed, including birth, child development, raising children, problems in adolescence, becoming a couple, aging, and retirement. Also included is a detailed appendix containing a variety of poignant, insightful interviews featuring Haley’s reflections on the early years of practice and the development of directive family therapy. Problem areas addressed in Directive Family Therapy include:  firesetting  bedwetting  fear of dogs  violent behavior  teenage rebellion  incest  drugs  panic attacks  abuse  fights within couple relationship  eating disorders  alcohol abuse  affairs  sexual shyness within a couple relationship  shoplifting  and more Directive Family Therapy is invaluable for mental health professionals of every experience level, and is a useful family therapy resource for educators and students in MFT programs and psychologyand a fitting and poignant memoir to the work of a profoundly gifted family therapist.

Madeleine Richeport-Haley

Routledge

Directive family therapy pioneer Jay Haley and Madeleine Richeport-Haley explain their innovative techniques for solving problems Directive Family Therapy is the final work of a widely recognized giant in the international family therapy field. This text is the pre-eminent state-of-the-art sourcebook on practical, innovative techniques to effectively solve problems throughout the life cycle stages. Directive family therapy pioneer Jay Haley, PhD(who passed away in 2007), and, Madeleine Richeport-Haley, PhD provide practitioners with creative directives to clearly identify problems, formulate well-designed treatment plans, and then successfully carry them out to achieve lasting therapeutic change. This essential text explores fascinating case studies illustrating the powerful, highly effective problem solving directives. The work is extensively referenced, and includes a full and complete bibliography of Haley's published works and a list of the authors' collaborative films. Directive Family Therapy presents highly instructive, revelatory stories about working with real life clients and provides dynamic, innovative, and oftentimes surprising solutions to a wide range of specifically detailed problems and clinical issues. All stages and issues in the life cycle are addressed, including birth, child development, raising children, problems in adolescence, becoming a couple, aging, and retirement. Also included is a detailed appendix containing a variety of poignant, insightful interviews featuring Haley’s reflections on the early years of practice and the development of directive family therapy. Problem areas addressed in Directive Family Therapy include: 
<ul>
<li> firesetting </li>
<li> bedwetting </li>
<li> fear of dogs </li>
<li> violent behavior </li>
<li> teenage rebellion </li>
<li> incest </li>
<li> drugs </li>
<li> panic attacks </li>
<li> abuse </li>
<li> fights within couple relationship </li>
<li> eating disorders </li>
<li> alcohol abuse </li>
<li> affairs </li>
<li> sexual shyness within a couple relationship </li>
<li> shoplifting </li>
<li> and more
</li>
</ul> Directive Family Therapy is invaluable for mental health professionals of every experience level, and is a useful family therapy resource for educators and students in MFT programs and psychologyand a fitting and poignant memoir to the work of a profoundly gifted family therapist.

This reissued version of a work first published 30 years ago, deals with ground rules for the practice of psychotherapy, setting out the basic tenets of strategic therapy, presenting various approaches to therapy from the viewpoint of paradoxical communication and offering an historical overview of the origins of family therapy.The introduction to the book has been revised and updated. The original work was published as a result of an investigation into the whole field of therapy undertaken by the George Bateson research project in 1963.

Strategies of Psychotherapy

Medical Books

Psychology

Pearson/Allyn & Bacon

Contains the essays: "The Art of Psychoanalysis"; "The Power Tactics of Jesus Christ"; "The Art of Being a Schizophrenic"; "The Art of Being a Failure as a Therapist"; "In Defense of Psychoanalysis"; "Towards a Rationalization for Directive Therapy"; "How to Have an Awful Marriage"; and, "Therapy - A New Phenomenon".

Power Tactics of Jesus Christ, and Other Essays

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Triangle Press

Directive Family Therapy

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