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Book Reviews Edited by César A. Alfonso, M.D. and Joseph R. Silvio, M.D. Book Reviews Book Reviews The Embedded Self: An Integrated Psychodynamic and Systemic Perspective on Couples and Family Therapy, by Mary-Joan Gerson. Routledge, NY, 2010, 291 pp., $35.95 This book highlights the dramatic differences in perspective, awareness, and focus when engaging in psychoanalytic-oriented psychotherapy or family and couples psychotherapy. The author, growing up in a multi-ethnic environment, was deeply impressed by the degree to which the individual was invariably intricately embedded in his or her family and immediate environment. This outlook influenced her choice of professional training. She simultaneously obtained psychoanalytic as well as family therapy training and became a sought-after therapist and teacher in individual, family, and couples therapy. She brings ideal qualifications to the project of this book, which is to provide an orientation to psychodynamic-minded psychotherapists in the theory and practice of work with families and couples. She introduces us to the feel and texture of how system theory perceives the way families function or how they get mired in dysfunction. This book is timely. The psychoanalytic climate is changing, leaning more to pluralistic points of view and varied clinical activities. The author engages our http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis & Dynamic Psychiatry Guilford Press

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Guilford Press
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1546-0371
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10.1521/jaap.2011.39.3.573
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Edited by César A. Alfonso, M.D. and Joseph R. Silvio, M.D. Book Reviews Book Reviews The Embedded Self: An Integrated Psychodynamic and Systemic Perspective on Couples and Family Therapy, by Mary-Joan Gerson. Routledge, NY, 2010, 291 pp., $35.95 This book highlights the dramatic differences in perspective, awareness, and focus when engaging in psychoanalytic-oriented psychotherapy or family and couples psychotherapy. The author, growing up in a multi-ethnic environment, was deeply impressed by the degree to which the individual was invariably intricately embedded in his or her family and immediate environment. This outlook influenced her choice of professional training. She simultaneously obtained psychoanalytic as well as family therapy training and became a sought-after therapist and teacher in individual, family, and couples therapy. She brings ideal qualifications to the project of this book, which is to provide an orientation to psychodynamic-minded psychotherapists in the theory and practice of work with families and couples. She introduces us to the feel and texture of how system theory perceives the way families function or how they get mired in dysfunction. This book is timely. The psychoanalytic climate is changing, leaning more to pluralistic points of view and varied clinical activities. The author engages our

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