Trouble in the Family

Series: America's Crises Series

Duration: 90

Year Published: 1965

Creator: WNET/13

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Description: Reports on family therapy, a relatively new and unusual form of psychotherapy in which a family is treated as a unit. Examines a middle class New England family undergoing family therapy. Uses a one-way mirror technique to record the candid reactions of the family. Follows their progress in nine of the thirteen actual therapy sessions., The emotional problems of a middle-class New England family. How they undertook family therapy. Scenes from 9 of the 13 actual therapy sessions. Dr. Nathan Ackerman discusses the techniques of family therapy with Harold Mayer.

Complete Record: Reports on family therapy, a relatively new and unusual form of psychotherapy in which a family is treated as a unit. Examines a middle class New England family undergoing family therapy. Uses a one-way mirror technique to record the candid reactions of the family. Follows their progress in nine of the thirteen actual therapy sessions., The emotional problems of a middle-class New England family. How they undertook family therapy. Scenes from 9 of the 13 actual therapy sessions. Dr. Nathan Ackerman discusses the techniques of family therapy with Harold Mayer.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.