Daily rituals, holiday traditions, and rites of passage mark our time, create unforgettable memories, and define us as individuals, family members, and community participants. Rituals in Families and Family Therapy, Revised Edition, builds on the rich case material of the first edition and develops the editors' powerful therapeutic approach that identifies normative family rituals as the basis for effective therapeutic rituals. With new chapters on such topics as rituals and bicultural couples, illness and ritual, and rituals in the wake of September 11, 2001, the Revised Edition both revisits and rejuvenates the landmark work of Imber-Black, Roberts, and Whiting.
Family rituals are the events, big and small, that give family life texture and meaning.
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| Contributors |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Preface to the Revised Edition |
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I. DEFINING AND DESIGNING RITUALS |
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Setting the Frame: Definition, Functions, and Typology of Rituals |
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Ritual Themes in Families and Family Therapy |
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Guidelines to Designing Therapeutic Rituals |
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88 | (35) |
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II. RITUALS FOR COUPLES, CHILDREN, AND ADOLESCENTS |
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Normative and Therapeutic Rituals in Couples Therapy |
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123 | (23) |
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Rituals for Bicultural Couples and Families |
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146 | (13) |
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Imitative and Contagious Magic in the Therapeutic Use Of Rituals with Children |
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159 | (23) |
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Mazel Tov: The Bar Mitzvah as a Multigenerational Ritual of Change and Continuity |
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182 | (35) |
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III. FACILITATING COMPLEX FAMILY PROCESSES THROUGH RITUAL |
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Therapeutic Rituals with Families with Adopted Members |
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217 | (20) |
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Rituals and Serious Illness: Marking the Path |
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237 | (16) |
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Assessing Family Rituals in Alcoholic Families |
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253 | (27) |
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Systemic Rituals in Sexual Therapy |
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280 | (20) |
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Creation of Family Identity Through Ritual Performances In Early Remarriage |
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300 | (33) |
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IV. RITUALS, FAMILIES, AND THE WIDER SOCIAL CONTEXT |
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September 11th: Rituals of Healing and Transformation |
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333 | (12) |
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Women and Ritual in Family Therapy |
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345 | (33) |
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Political Traumas, Oppression, and Rituals |
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378 | (25) |
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V. RITUALS AND FAMILY THERAPY TRAINING |
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| Afterword |
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| Index |
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Evan Imber-Black, Ph.D., is the Editor of Family Process, the leading scholarly journal in Family Therapy; and Program Director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Masters Program at Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY. She is a senior faculty member and Director of the Center for Families and Health at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, where she also has her private practice in Couple and Family Therapy. She is the author of 3 books and the editor of 2 books. Janine Roberts, Ed. D., is President of the American Family Therapy Academy and a professor and family therapist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Tales and Transformations: Stories in Families and Family Therapy (Norton, 1994) and coauthor of Rituals for Our Times: Celebrating, Healing, and Changing Our Lives and Our Relationships (Jason Aronson, 1998). Richard A. Whiting, Ed.D., has been the Director of the Counseling Center at Springfield College, Springfield, MA, since 1970 and teaches as adjunct professor in Springfield Colleges Marriage and Family Therapy masters program.
