Norman Paul believed that in order to live in the present, the past had to be acknowledged, its secrets revealed, and its losses mourned. In the spirit of Murray Bowen, who routinely challenged families while connecting with them, Paul used genograms to highlight family patterns and created dynamic videos in which he asked clients to confront themselves, their relatives and their feelings. He asked clients to speak with and walk in the footsteps of deceased relatives by visiting their gravesites, writing letters to them and even reviewing their asylum records. It was only by confronting and mourning the pain they inherited from their ancestors in these evocative ways that they could finally step out from the shadow of tragedy to live freely and fully.
This video will move you to deeper levels of personal and professional awareness and deepen your skills for working with families with unmourned loss.
Length of video: 0:27:41
English subtitles available
Group ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-562-9
Group ISBN-13 #: 978-1-60124-562-5
Monica McGoldrick, M.A., LCSW, Ph.D. (Honorary), the Director of the Multicultural Family Institute in Highland Park, New Jersey, is also Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She received an Honorary Doctorate from Smith for her many contributions to the field. Among many other awards, she has received the American Family Therapy Academy Award for Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory and Practice. She has written and spoken widely on a variety of topics including culture, class, gender, the family life cycle, loss, genograms, remarried families, and siblings. Three of her books have become best-selling classics of their publishers:
The Changing Family Life Cycle, 3rd edition;
Ethnicity and Family Therapy, 3rd edition; and
Genograms: Assessment and Intervention, 3rd edition. See her
website for more information on Monica McGoldrick and The Multicultural Family Institute.
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