Required Texts and Readings:

Becvar R., & Becvar, D.  (most recent).  Family therapy:  A systemic integration.  Allyn and Bacon.  (ISBN 020517275X)

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Students are responsible for readings assigned in class.

Recommended Readings:

       American Psychological Association (most recent edition)  Publication manual of the American Psychological Association.  Washington, D.C.:  Author.

Sullivan, H. S.  (1938).  Conceptions in modern psychiatry.  Norton.  (ISBN 0393007405)

Course Reader:

Bateson, G., Jackson, D., Haley, J., & Weakland, J.  (1956).  Toward a theory of schizophrenia.  Behavioral Science, 1, 4. 

Boszormenyi-Nagy, I., & Ulrich, D.  (1981).  Chapter 5:  Contextual family therapy, in  the Handbook of Family Therapy Volume I, edited by Gruman A., & Kniskern, D.  New York:  Brunner/Mazel. 

Friedman, E. H.  (1991).  Chapter 5:  Bowen theory and therapy in The Handbook of family therapy Volume II.  Edited by Gurman, A., & Kniskern D.  New York:  Brunner/Mazel.

Gergen, K. J.  (1985).  The social constructionist movement in modern psychology.  American Psychologist, 40, 3.

Glassersfeld, E.  (1981).  An introduction to radical constructivism.  English translation of a chapter written for Die Erfundene Wirklichkeit, Paul Watzlawick (Ed.), Munich:  Piper.

Jackson, D. D.  (1954).  The question of family homeostasis.  The Psychiatric Quarterly Supplement, 31.  Utica, New York:  State Hospital Press.

Jackson, D. D.  (1963).  The sick, the sad, the savage, and the sane.  Annual Academic Lecture to the Society of Medical Psychoanalysts and Department of Psychiatry, New York Medical College. 

Jackson, D. D.  (1965).  The study of the family.  Family Process 4, 1. 

Jackson, D. D.  (1967).  Play, paradox and people:  The myth of normality.  Medical Opinion and Review, May, 3, 5.

Madanes, C.  (1991). Chapter 12:  Strategic family therapy, in The Handbook of family therapy.  Edited by Gurman, A., & Kniskern D.  New York:  Brunner/Mazel.

Minuchin, S.  (1974).  Structural family therapy.  From the American Handbook of Psychiatry, Volume II, revised edition edited by S. Arieti.  New York:  Basic Books. 

Nichols, M., & Minuchin, S.  (1999).  Chapter 6:  Short-term structural family therapy with couples, in Short Term Couple Therapy edited by James Donovan.  New York:  Guilford.

Tannenbaum, F.  (1938).  The dramatization of evil.  Crime and the community:  New York:  Columbia Press.

Tomm, K.  (1984).  One perspective on the Milan systemic approach:  Part I.  Overview of development, theory and practice.  Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 10, 2.