Edwin H. Friedman.

FAMILIES AND OTHER SYSTEMS

The Macrosystemic Context of Family Therapy

EDITED BY JOHN SCHWARTZMAN

The application of systemic principles to social organizations other than the family is the new frontier of family therapy. This volume applies the best of systemic thinking to those contexts in which families and family therapists struggle to achieve improved functioning and begins to lay the groundwork for the application of these principles to a wide variety of human institutions. The open minded reader will be well rewarded by the purchase of this volume

Donald A. Bloch, M.D.

This important solome applies systemic principles to an understanding of the larger social, cultural, and economic systems within which families are nested. New theoreti cal insights into the structural isomorphs berween families and the helping systems to which they turn are coupled with specific clinical strategies for treating disturbed fam ilies. The result is a valuable resource for researchers as well as family practitioners