A master of family therapy, Salvador Minuchin, traces for the first time the minute operations of day-to-day practice. Dr. Minuchin has achieved renown for his theoretical breakthroughs and his success at treatment. Now he explains in close detail those precise and difficult maneuvers that constitute his art. The book thus codifies the method of one of the country's most successful practitioners.

Spontaneity -- Families -- Joining -- Planning -- Change -- Reframing -- Enactment -- Focus -- Intensity -- Restructuring -- Boundaries -- Unbalancing -- Complementarity -- Realities -- Constructions -- Paradoxes / Peggy Papp -- Strengths -- Beyond techniques.