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The cybernetics of prejudices in the practice of psychotherapy / in alphabetical order, Gianfranco Cecchin, Gerry Lane, Wendel A. Ray ; foreword by Bradford P. Keeney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cecchin, Gianfranco, 1932-2004.
- Series:
- Systemic thinking and practice series.
- Systemic thinking and practice series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychotherapy.
- Cybernetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (96 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Karnac Books, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this book, the authors identify the therapist's values and beliefs which they describe as prejudices, they then identify the equivalent prejudices held by the family, and finally, they trace the ways a prejudice from one side affects the other and is, in turn, affected by the other.
- Contents:
- COVER; CONTENTS; EDITORS' FOREWORD; FOREWORD; CHAPTER ONE Introduction; CHAPTER TWO A theory of the cybernetics of prejudices; CHAPTER THREE Clinical prejudices; CHAPTER FOUR Managing discourse about prejudices: the heart of therapy; CHAPTER FIVE Closing comments on the therapeutically correct; EPILOGUE The last family therapist; REFERENCES AND SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-71) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-78181-126-1
- 0-429-91248-X
- 0-429-47348-6
- 1-282-90036-6
- 9786612900365
- 1-84940-160-8
- 9780429473487
- OCLC:
- 726747158
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