{"product_id":"the-self-in-the-system","title":"The Self in the System","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1988. This thought-provoking volume offers a constructive critical analysis of family therapy for its neglect of the self in the system  and provides a therapeutic approach to clinical problems that takes into account both individual and family dynamics. The author shows that by elevating the metaphor of the system to dogma  family therapy has lost sight of much of the richness and complicating influence of personal feeling  motivation  and conflict  resulting in a proliferation of esoteric  abstract theories and highly mechanistic  technical interventions. The Self in the System describes a different reality that is often overlooked: no matter how much their behavior is coordinated within the system  family members remain separate individuals with private hopes and ambitions  motives and expectations  quirks and foibles  and potentials for creative work. This book provides a unique approach that develops a better understanding of family members individual experiences  and helps in enhancing their personal responsibility and ability to solve their own interactional problems within the family system. The approach  however  is not just another version of psychoanalytic family therapy  but rather one that utilizes the best tools of family therapy and the most useful ideas from individual psychology and psychodynamic psychotherapy. Chapters cover such important topics as finding the family and losing the self; the problem of change; working with interaction; the effective use of empathy; making assessments that include both the whole family system and the psychology of its members; interactional psychodynamics; a practical guide to object relations theory; how to develop understanding; and working with resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964881006645,"sku":"ByrdShop_0876304722","price":43.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780876304723.jpg?v=1770483327","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-self-in-the-system","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}