Out of Control [[electronic resource] ] : Family Therapy and Domestic Disorder

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791716903321
• Autore: Gubrium Jaber F
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Thousand Oaks, : SAGE Publications, 1992
• ISBN: 1-4833-2601-2; 1-4522-4609-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 p.)
• Collana: SAGE Library of Social Research
• Disciplina: 616.89156
• Soggetti: Dysfunctional families; Family counseling; Family psychotherapy -- Political aspects; Family psychotherapy -- Social aspects; Problem families
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I - Themes and Settings; Chapter 1 - The Troubled Home; The Problem and the Themes; The Constructed Home in Sociological Perspective; Knowing the Home; Organizational Embeddedness; Producing the Troubled Home; Chapter 2 - The Settings; The Facilities; Staff; Treatment Programs; Part II - Westside House; Chapter 3 - Discerning Domestic Authority; The Reality behind the Signs; The Presenting versus the Underlying Problem; The Language of Authority; Signs of Authority; Chapter 4 - Constructing the System; The Language of the System; Beholding the SystemMechanics of Construction; Chapter 5 - Restoring Hierarchy; Taking Control; Shaking up the System; Part III - Fairview Hospital; Chapter 6 - Domestic Sentiments and Control; The Organization of Domestic Sentiments; The History of Domestic Sentiments; How Power Spoils; Chapter 7 - The Rationalization of Feelings; Prerationalized Emotionality; The Democracy of Emotion; The Ultimate Depth of Feeling; Naming Feelings; The Good Session; Chapter 8 - Facilitating Expression; Passive and Aggressive Responses; Assertive Communication; Toughlove; Part IV - The Social Construction of Domestic OrderChapter 9 - Voice and Method; Rationalization; Therapeutization; From Domestic Privacy to Public Concern; Making Visible the Voicing of Disorder; Chapter 10 - Language and Domestic Reality; Reality Work; Rule Use; Successful Therapy and Reality Construction; A Postmodern Perspective?; Appendix: Doing the Fieldwork; References; Index; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: Counselling techniques that can help families regain control and causes of families breaking up are among the topics explored in this ethnographic account of therapeutic sessions. Two very different views of what a family is and how it becomes `out of control' emerge, resulting in vastly different therapeutic approaches. Gubrium compares two family counselling facilities - a community outpatient centre and a private family-focused psychiatric hospital - which have radically different concepts of the family. One setting examines a family's system including hidden structures, power