Family rituals are the events, big and small, that give family life texture and meaning. Daily rituals, holiday traditions, and rites of passage mark our time, create unforgettable memories, and define us as individuals, family members, and community participants. Rituals in Families and Family Therapy, Revised Edition, builds on the rich case material of the first edition and develops the editors' powerful therapeutic approach that identifies normative family rituals as the basis for effective therapeutic rituals. With new chapters on such topics as rituals AND bicultural couples, illness and ritual, and rituals in the wake of September 11, 2001, the Revised Edition both revisits and rejuvenates the landmark work of Imber-Black, Roberts, and Whiting. from the publisher's website Table of Contents: Foreword Peggy Papp Contributors Acknowledgments Preface Evan Imber-Black I. Defining and Designing Rituals 1. Setting the Frame: Definition, Functions and Typology of Rituals
Janine Roberts 2. Ritual Themes in Families and Family Therapy
Evan Imber-Black 3. Guidelines to Designing Therapeutic Rituals
Richard A. Whiting II. Rituals For Couples, Children and Adolescents 4. Normative and Therapeutic Rituals in Couples Therapy
Evan Imber-Black 5. Rituals for Bi-Cultural Couples and Families
Lascelles W. Black 6. Imitative and Contagious Magic in the Therapeutic Use
Of Rituals with Children
John J. O'Connor and Aaron Noah Hoorwitz 7. Mazel Tov: The Bar Mitzvah as a Multigenerational Ritual
of Change and Continuity
Judith Davis III. Facilitating Complex Family Processes Through Ritual 8. Therapeutic Rituals with Families with Adopted Members
Richard A. Whiting 9. Rituals and Serious Illness: Marking Your Path
Janine Roberts
10. Assessing Family Rituals in Alcoholic Families
Steven J. Wolin, Linda A. Bennett, and Jane S. Jacobs 11. Systemic Rituals in Sexual Therapy
Gary L. Sanders 12. Creation of Family Identity Through Ritual Performances
In Early Marriage
Mary F. Whiteside IV. Rituals, Families and the Wider Social Context 13. September 11th: Rituals of Healing and Transformation
Evan Imber-Black 14. Women and Rituals in Family Therapy
Joan Laird 15. Political Traumas, Oppression, and Rituals
Cecilia Kohen V. Rituals and Family Therapy Training 16. Rituals and Trainees
Janine Roberts Afterword Evan Imber-Black Index About the Authors: Evan Imber-Black, Ph.D., is Director of the Center for Families and Health at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, Professor of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and past president of the American Family Therapy Academy. She is author or editor of many books, including The Secret Life of Families, and Rituals for Our Times. Janine Roberts, Ed.D., is President of the American Family Therapy Academy and a professor and family therapist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Tales and Transformations: Stories in Families and Family Therapy (Norton, 1994) and coauthor of Rituals for Our Times: Celebrating, Healing, and Changing Our Lives and Our Relationships (Jason Aronson, 1998). Richard Whiting, Ed.D., has been the Director of the Counseling Center at Springfield College, Springfield, MA, since 1970 and teaches as adjunct professor in Springfield College’s Marriage and Family Therapy masters program.
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