Midnight Musings of a Family Therapist - Hardcover

by Carl Whitaker (Author), Margaret O. Ryan (Editor)

A compilation of Carl Whitaker's lectures and un-published essays, taken from his 40 years of practice as a psychiatrist and family therapist. He talks about families, including his own, and the events that shaped the family therapy field, and psychotherapy.

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For over forty years Carl Whitaker has been immersed in psychiatry and family therapy. This book includes the best of Whitaker's musings, deftly organized and edited. In telling the story of his own development and candidly expressing his beliefs about families, he reveals the combination of maternal tenderness and paternal toughness that have endeared him to two generations of families and family therapists.