THE PATHOLOGICAL FAMILY: POSTWAR AMERICA AND THE RISE OF FAMILY THERAPY
Book ID/图书代码： 03360013B61596
English Summary/英文概要： While iconic popular images celebrated family life during the 1950s and 1960s, American families were simultaneously regarded as potentially menacing sources of social disruption. The history of family therapy makes the complicated power of the family at midcentury vividly apparent. Clinicians developed a new approach to psychotherapy that claimed to locate the cause and treatment of mental illness in observable patterns of family interaction and communication rather than in individual psyches. Drawing on cybernetics, systems theory, and the social and behavioral sciences, they ambitiously aimed to cure schizophrenia and stop juvenile delinquency. With particular sensitivity to the importance of scientific observation and visual technologies such as one-way mirrors and training films in shaping the young field, The Pathological Family examines how family therapy developed against the intellectual and cultural landscape of postwar America.
As Deborah Weinstein shows, the midcentury expansion of America’s therapeutic culture and the postwar fixation on family life profoundly affected one another. Family therapists and other postwar commentators alike framed the promotion of democracy in the language of personality formation and psychological health forged in the crucible of the family. As therapists in this era shifted their clinical gaze to whole families, they nevertheless grappled in particular with the role played by mothers in the onset of their children’s aberrant behavior. Although attitudes toward family therapy have shifted during intervening generations, the relations between family and therapeutic culture remain salient today.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 自1950年到1960年之间，虽然人们格外推崇家庭生活，但是美国的家庭状况还是存在危害社会的潜在威胁。家庭治疗这段历史在20世纪中叶扮演着一个复杂的角色。临床医生发明了一种新的疗法，并且声明心理障碍在家庭成员中互相促进和交流比起单个治疗可以更好的找到根源并且得到治疗。依据控制论、系统学、社会和行为科学,他们对于治疗精神分裂症及阻止青少年犯罪充满信心。通过对一些科学观察及视觉技术的详细的记录和对比，比如让青少年进行单向镜子和映像训练，家庭病理学告诉我们如何改善战后美国的知识及文化环境。
正如黛博拉•温斯坦所说的那样,20世纪中期，美国疗养文化及战后家庭安定生活的思想深深的影响着每一个人。家庭治疗师和其他战后评论员都促进个人语言的自由化及让人们在沉闷的家庭环境中保有健康的心理状态。正如在这个行业的医师也把自己的治疗角度从个人转向了整个家庭，他们在某中特定的情况下会充当孩子母亲的角色来纠正孩子的怪异行为。虽然家庭治愈的理念已经在下一代身上有所改变，但家庭关系和治愈文化还是如此突出。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 黛博拉•温斯坦是布朗大学彭布罗克中心助理,同时也从事性及性取向方面教学。Deborah Weinstein is Assistant Director of the Pembroke Center at Brown University, where she also teaches in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
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