Description:
The Pathological Family examines how family therapy developed against the intellectual and cultural landscape of postwar America.
Brief description: Deborah Weinstein is Assistant Director of the Pembroke Center at Brown University, where she also teaches in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Review Quotes:
Weinsten has produced an invaluable history of family therapy's professional and intellectual origins and convincingly demonstrates why it was and remains a radical change to the orthodoxies of psychoanalysis.
--Rebecca L. Davis "American Historical Review"