Rituals for Our Times: Celebrating, Healing, and Changing Our Lives and Our Relationships - Hardcover

Imber-Black, Evan; Roberts, Janine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060167149 ISBN 13: 9780060167141

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1992

Synopsis

A study of ritual in modern life discusses daily rituals, celebrations, life-cycle rituals, and rites of passage and proposes ways to rediscover meaning in often stale rituals. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour.

About this title

About the Author:

Evan Imber-Black is the director of the Family and Group Studies Program and Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is on the faculty of the Family Institute of Westchester and is a Master Therapist of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy.

From Publishers Weekly:

The coauthors of Rituals in Families and Family Therapy , both of whom head family therapy programs--Imber-Black at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, Roberts at the University of Massachusetts--contend that rituals are essential to social growth, as they help individuals to develop personal identities and provide families with frameworks through which to maintain and strengthen their relationships. While leaving room for adapting or creating new rituals in accord with differing family compositions, customs and cultural heritages, the authors of this notably jargon-free psychological study offer practical advice on how to best use words and symbols to create special events through which to celebrate life's continuity, rhythmic cycles and changes from birth to death. They also explain how such everyday rituals as meals and bedtimes "shape, capture, and express relationships." Illustrations not seen by PW.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0060167149
• ISBN 13: 9780060167141
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 331