Introduction to Systemic Family Psychotherapy

 The book outlines the rules of functioning of the family system, provides examples of constructing genograms and their analysis. The description of numerous cases from practice illustrates and complements theoretical statements. The family is considered here as a social system, as a complex of elements and their properties that are in dynamic relationships and correlations with each other. 
The book will be of interest to both specialists and anyone interested in the problems of psychology and psychotherapy.

Contents:
- Feedback loops
- "Black box"
- "Organismic" view of the world and circular causality
- General characteristics of the family system
- Parameters of the family system
- The first parameter of the family system — interaction stereotypes
- The second parameter of the family system — family rules
- Family myths — the third parameter of the family system
- The fourth parameter of the family system — boundaries
- The fifth parameter of the family system — stabilizers
- Family history — the sixth parameter of the family system
- Methodological principles of systemic family psychotherapy
- Circularity
- Hypotheticality
- Neutrality
- Psychotherapeutic interventions
- Method of transfer and expectations
- Stages of intervention in the family system
- Prescriptions
- General scheme of working with the family
- Literature