Rewriting Family Scripts, 9781572300668
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Break free from family patterns, rewrite your story, find secure base.

Rewriting Family Scripts

Improvisation and Systems Change

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    16 July 1996

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Summary

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 therapists help clients learn to improvise new patterns of relating. This book presents an innovative approach to doing just that–incorporating into therapy elements of script theory and recent findings in attachment research, including those related to narrative. Developing a new attachment concept, the …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781572300668
ISBN-10:1572300663
Author:John Byng-Hall
Publisher:Guilford Publications
Imprint:Guilford Publications
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Edition:1st
Release Date:16 July 1996
Weight:482g
Dimensions:25mm x 401mm x 199mm
Series:The Guilford Family Therapy
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Critics Review

“I found Rewriting Family Scripts to be a very human book, absorbing, delightful and clear. It should engender a new era in the study of attachment in the family and should serve as recommended reading for all workers in the field. “Mary Main, Ph.D., Leiden, The Netherlands“This long?awaited book is the culmination of 25 years of practice by one of Great Britain’s foremost family therapy practitioners and trainers … It is an eminently practical and accessible book and provides us with a powerful tool with which to explore the complex links among individual, interaction, and system.” Bebe Speed, Editor, Journal of Family Therapy“Rewriting Family Scripts has been long awaited, but like the very best wines, the maturity and richness that John Byng?Hall’s ideas and practice have provided has made the wait worth?while.” Arnon Bentovim

About The Author

John Byng-Hall

John Byng-Hall is a Consultant Child and Family Psychiatrist at the Tavistock Clinic. He has published widely on topics such as family myths, legends, and scripts; attachments within the family; adolescence; and the impact of chronic illness within the family. He has also presented his ideas at international conferences. He was trained at Cambridge University, University College Hospital London, the Maudsley and Bethlem Royal Hospitals, and at the Tavistock Clinic. He is a past Chair of the Institute of Family Therapy, London.

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