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Families can develop self-destructive routines so predictable that members seem to be following a script - each coming in on cue as the plot unfolds. Such scripts can be altered, however, when families in therapy learn how to improvise new patterns of relating. Rewriting Family Scripts presents an innovative approach to doing just that - incorporating into family therapy elements of script theory and recent findings in attachment research, including those related to narrative. Developing a new systemic attachment concept, "the secure family base," from which individual members can feel safe…
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 1998The Guilford Press · 300 pages · 9781572300668
- Other · English · 1995Guilford Press · 288 pages · 9780898628760
Attachment behaviorFamilyFamily psychotherapyPsychological aspectsPsychological aspects of FamilySchemas (Psychology)Family, psychological aspectsCommunication in families