The Family Crucible

The Intense Experience of Family Therapy

By: Augustus Y. Napier PhD, Carl A. Whitaker MD - contributor

Narrated by: Derek Shoales

"If you have a troubled marriage, a troubled child, a troubled self, if you're in therapy or think that there's no help for your predicament, The Family Crucible will give you insights...that are remarkably fresh and helpful." (New York Times Book Review)

The classic groundbreaking book on family therapy by acclaimed experts Augustus Y. Napier, PhD, and Carl Whitaker, MD.

This extraordinary book presents scenarios of one family's therapy experience and explains what underlies each encounter. You will discover the general patterns that are common to all families - stress, polarization and escalation, scapegoating, triangulation, blaming, and the diffusion of identity - and you will gain a vivid understanding of the intriguing field of family therapy.

©1978 Augustus Y. Napier and Carl A. Whitaker (P)2021 Tantor

Love the depth and breadth

Love the anecdote. The various stories. Gus did a lovely job of getting us in the space

great

great learning great voice over. the book have a great value I really enjoyed listening. and the nerroritor was great. must book for couples therapy

Essential!

This audio version was much easier to digest than reading the book! Highly recommended

Very helpful (and responding to another review)

Good examples and theory together. If only more of us could receive this kind of therapy. I wish the concepts could be taught in school rather than algebra; it is just as complicated and would help us all more.
I read a review that mentioned the author’s description of the teenage girl’s appearance; I agreed it sounded weird. However, at least in this edition that I listened to, the words were not quite the same and it made some sense in context and sounded more honest than weird, although there might be a better way to write about it.

Family therapy

Great book for any new therapist who wants to work with families Highly recommend