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Rewriting Family Scripts

Improvisation and Systems Change
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Families can develop self-destructive routines so predictable that members seem to be following a script; each one 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 systematic attachment concept, "the secure family base", from which individual members can feel safe enough to explore and improvise new scripts, author John Byng-Hall shows how families can change insecure relationship patterns both during and after therapy. Clearly written, jargon-free, and illustrated with detailed clinical case material, this book presents a comprehensive conceptual framework that illuminates the central issues of family therapy practice. This book is aimed at family and marital therapists and other therapists working with individuals, families or groups, who are interested in understanding and improving family dynamics. It also serves as a text in courses on family and marital therapy and courses on attachment theory.
I. From Scripts to Improvisations 1. Secure Enough to Improvise 2. The Nature of Scripts 3. Identification across the Generations 4. Rewriting Family Scripts 5. A Case Example II. Creating a Secure Family Base 6. Security in the Family 7. Therapy and Supervision as Secure Bases 8. Myths and Legends about Security 9. Resolving Care-Control Conflicts 10. Resolving Distance Conflicts 11. Positive Framing of Parenting Scripts III. Reediting Scripts in Changing Circumstances 12. Scripts in Formation of a New Family 13. Grieving Scripts 14. Disrupted Scripts: Family Breakup and Disability
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