Rediscovering Nagy: What happened to contextual therapy?

International Journal of Family Therapy - Tập 15 - Trang 395-404 - 1993
Charlotte Wilburn-McCoy1
1The Family Place, Help Center-North Dallas, Dallas

Tóm tắt

Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy, originator and leading proponent of contextual family therapy, has been addressing relational ethics for more than 40 years. During the 1980s there was a proliferation of contextual publications. Great interest in the approach seemed to peak and then ebb silently. What happened to contextual therapy? Why has contextual therapy not taken its place among the other widely used and recognized therapeutic models? This article addresses these questions through a review of family therapy literature.

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