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Family Therapy or Religion: A Rereading of T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party
Author(s) -
SANDER FRED M.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1970.00279.x
Subject(s) - family therapy , psychoanalysis , psychotherapist , sociology , psychology , epistemology , social psychology , philosophy
From the framework of analytic sociology the author discusses areas of overlap between family psychotherapy and religion. This is done through the analysis of T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party , a play written in 1949 which anticipated the innovation of family therapy. The emergence of the Family Therapy Movement is viewed in part as a response to changes in the structure of the modern family.