The Structural Approach in family therapy
Abstract
The perspective has changed. Since Nathan Ackerman began in the 1950's to see whole families when the referral problem was a child or other member of the family with emotional difficulties, a school of therapists has arisen that agrees upon a new definition of the problem: the individual is no longer the unit of pathology, but is expressing the dysfunction in a set of relationships, in which he/she has been "chosen" to carry the problems of the entire family.
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