| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| The Other Side | p. 1 |
| The Case of the Missing Client: Using Non-Pejorative Language with Strong Denial Systems | p. 5 |
| Read Aloud | p. 11 |
| Stepfamily Enrichment: Assets Feedback | p. 13 |
| Ingredients of an Interaction | p. 17 |
| The Tug-of-War Toilet | p. 22 |
| Metaphors on Space | p. 24 |
| The Treatment of Postdivorce Adjustment Problems Through Cognitive Restructuring | p. 28 |
| Termination as a Therapeutic Technique | p. 33 |
| The Communication Stone | p. 37 |
| Termination Rituals | p. 38 |
| Growthful Touch | p. 43 |
| Using a Funeral Ritual in Therapy: Changing Rigid Interaction Patterns | p. 46 |
| Neuro-Linguistic Programming in One-Person Family Therapy | p. 50 |
| Clare's Sonata | p. 55 |
| Hanging Out: An Intervention for Random Families | p. 59 |
| Functional Dysfunctions | p. 63 |
| The Absent Expert: A Method of Indirect Confrontation | p. 66 |
| Safety for the Little Girl | p. 70 |
| Facilitating Marital Dialogue: A Few Fundamental Components | p. 74 |
| Multiple Split Opinion | p. 82 |
| The Dreaded Transition: Play Therapy from a Meta/Isomorphic Position | p. 86 |
| If It Walks Like a Duck . . . | p. 90 |
| Putting Away Old Loyalties in Later Life | p. 94 |
| Problems with Problem Solving: A Metaphor for Investigation of Problematic Process | p. 97 |
| Charting the Transactional Map | p. 100 |
| Problem Definition and Treatment Protocol for Multi-Problem Families | p. 105 |
| Treating Dual Career Couples | p. 108 |
| What Is My Part? | p. 113 |
| The Comrade Stance | p. 117 |
| The Giving of Gifts - A Therapeutic Ritual | p. 120 |
| Use of Self and Space | p. 126 |
| Unconscious Fears | p. 128 |
| Satir's Parts Party with Couples | p. 132 |
| The Family as Consultant to the Therapist: A Technique for Facilitating Termination with Reluctant Families | p. 137 |
| The Struggler | p. 141 |
| Motorcycle Madness: A Structural Intervention with a Life-Threatening Disorder | p. 144 |
| Desperately Seeking French Fries | p. 148 |
| Termination Rituals | p. 154 |
| Self-Esteem: Everyone's Favorite | p. 158 |
| A Cross-Cultural Double Date | p. 163 |
| Healing of the Memories | p. 165 |
| Burning the Affair: A Ritual for Starting Over and Recommitting | p. 171 |
| A Strange Thought | p. 175 |
| Family Meetings: A Tool for Developing Roles and Rules | p. 177 |
| A Family Intervention: Introducing Sex as a Subject | p. 181 |
| The Tell-It-Again Intervention | p. 184 |
| Family Therapy and Psychoeducation | p. 188 |
| Revisiting the Generations | p. 192 |
| The Family Regulator of Change Reframe | p. 194 |
| A Story | p. 198 |
| Beginner's Luck: A First Fortunate Family Encounter | p. 200 |
| Defining Conflict as a Demonstration of the Family Problem | p. 207 |
| Sculpting Progress and Change | p. 211 |
| The Turtle Who Was Afraid He Could | p. 214 |
| Making Contact: The First Intervention | p. 222 |
| Engaging the Difficult Adolescent from Behind the One-Way Mirror | p. 224 |
| The Use of Metaphor in Providing Feedback on Structured Assessment Procedures | p. 228 |
| Tommy and His Helpers | p. 233 |
| A Basic Intervention in Couples Therapy | p. 237 |
| Letter Writing in Family Therapy | p. 241 |
| A Change of Names | p. 247 |
| The Use of Resistant Family Members as Consultants in Therapy | p. 250 |
| The Use of Fantasy in Breaking Through Impasse | p. 255 |
| Passing the Baton | p. 260 |
| Using Bowen's Differentiation of Self Scale to Help Couples Understand and Resolve Marital Conflict | p. 263 |
| Resurrecting the Ghost of the Master: A Split-Team Technique with One Therapist | p. 269 |
| Strands of Change | p. 273 |
| "Pretend a Miracle Happened": A Brief Therapy Task | p. 278 |
| The Addict's Funeral Plans | p. 283 |
| The "What-If" Technique | p. 285 |
| Cultural Reconnections | p. 290 |
| Compliments | p. 295 |
| The Use of Gentle Paradox to Address Negative Loyalty | p. 298 |
| When Words Fail | p. 303 |
| Male Mystique | p. 309 |
| What Are Your Children Learning? | p. 314 |
| The Use of Meal Therapy in the Treatment of Families with Eating Disorders | p. 318 |
| Combining Individual and Conjoint Sessions in Couples Therapy | p. 325 |
| What, Where, When, How | p. 330 |
| Letters to Families Who Leave Therapy Prematurely | p. 332 |
| Captain's Paradise Concluded | p. 337 |
| The Divorce Ceremony: A Healing Strategy | p. 341 |
| Working with Rigid Parents: Reverse Images and Reframes | p. 346 |
| An Application of Programmed Writing: Arguing and Fighting | p. 350 |
| Treating Information Processing Errors | p. 355 |
| A Family Photograph | p. 361 |
| Silence | p. 363 |
| The Tape Recorder as a Behavior Modification Device in Couple Therapy | p. 367 |
| The Special Child: A Multi-Use Reframe | p. 369 |
| Grandma, Come Help! | p. 372 |
| Engaging Men | p. 380 |
| Dilemma: A Frame for Reframes | p. 382 |
| Supervising Client Conversation: A Brief Note on a Contextual Structure for Evoking Therapeutic Creativity | p. 386 |
| Engaging Adolescents in Family Therapy: Some Early Phase Skills | p. 389 |
| The Blanket | p. 399 |
| Frank and Jimmy | p. 401 |
| Questions as Metaphor | p. 409 |
| Intervention in Context | p. 412 |
| Beyond Intervention | p. 414 |
| Comfortable Interventions | p. 418 |
| About the Contributors | p. 421 |
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