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

Imber-Black, Evan; Roberts, Janine; Janine Roberts, Ed.D.; Evan Imber-Black

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060922109 ISBN 13: 9780060922108

Publisher: Perennial, 1993

Synopsis

In a timely, groundbreaking guide, two family therapists explore how to use rituals to make the happy moments in life more joyous, the sad moments more comforting, the important moments more memorable, and the intimate moments more cherishable. Line drawings.

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About the Author

Evan Imber-Black, Ph.D., is Director of Program Development at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, and Professor of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is an internationally recognized practitioner and consultant in family therapy. She is also the author of The Secret Life of Families: Truth-telling, Privacy and Reconciliation in a Tell-all Society.

Janine Roberts, Ed.D., is Professor and Family Therapist at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She is treasurer of the American Family Therapy Academy, and former editor of the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy. She presents frequently to national and international audiences on rituals, family stories, 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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Edition details

• Publisher: Perennial
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060922109
• ISBN 13: 9780060922108
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352