Integrative Systemic Therapy

By William M. Pinsof, Douglas Breunlin, William Russell , Jay L. Lebow , Anthony L. Chambers , Cheryl Rampage

Book cover of Integrative Systemic Therapy: Metaframeworks for Problem Solving With Individuals, Couples, and Families

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Integrative Systemic Therapy (IST) provides a comprehensive and unifying framework for individual, couple, and family therapy. The book guides practitioners to use concepts and strategies from specific models of therapy--behavioral, analytic, emotion focused, and so on--with a set of practical and flexible guidelines for what to do with whom, and…

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1 author picked Integrative Systemic Therapy as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The field of couple and family therapy started in the 1950s and led to several important, competing clinical theories for helping families and couples. 

However, those of us in the field regarded the introduction of systemic thinking as more than just a new therapeutic modality – we heralded it as a potential revolution in understanding and treating psychological and psychiatric issues. 

In systems theory, an individual’s emotional struggles and problematic behavior are viewed as due not only to “intrapsychic” conflicts, deficits in learning emotional- and behavioral-coping skills, and brain biology, but may affect and be affected by patterns of interaction…

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