A stranger in the family
Subtitle: culture, families, and therapy
By: Vincenzo DiNicola.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Norton; W.W. Norton
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: Family psychotherapy.; Psychiatry, Transcultural.
Description: "Meeting strangers" is a metaphor for the increasingly common experience of working with diversity in family therapy. This book offers a model of cultural family therapy for working with families across cultures, particularly immigrants, refugees, and minorities in mainstream society.

The author draws together several emerging trends in therapy and the human sciences: narrative approaches, transcultural psychiatry, studies of autobiographical memory and the distributed and saturated self, translation theory and sociolinguistics. He offers an understanding of the "situated nature" of human problems and tools for translating the family's culture and idioms into a common language in a culturally responsive and collaborative way.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-355) and index.