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Family Routines and Rituals
Barbara Fiese
Fiese shows how much of family life is carried by small repeated practices rather than by decisions. Useful for seeing what you inherited without choosing.
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Everything worth your time on the question: What am I repeating that I never chose?
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Family Therapy in Clinical Practice
Murray Bowen
Bowen's idea of differentiation, staying connected to your family without being governed by it, is the useful frame for most adult family questions.
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Genograms: Assessment and Intervention
Monica McGoldrick
The method for mapping a family across generations. It turns vague inherited feeling into something you can look at.
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Strengthening Family Resilience
Froma Walsh
Walsh looks at what families do well under pressure. A necessary counterweight when you are only cataloguing what went wrong.
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