Giving Voice to the Search for Meaning: An Interview with Ruth Schmidt Neven
By Anna McDowall. Volume 26 Issue Number 3. [PDF format - 803KB]Ruth Schmidt Neven is a child and adult psychotherapist who trained at the Tavistock Institute in England. She worked in the UK for over twenty years in child and family mental health services of the NHS. During this time, she was responsible for setting up Exploring Parenthood, an organisation which focused on parenting issues. Since migrating to Australia in 1989, Ruth has remained committed to promoting knowledge and understanding about child and family development in the broader community through her clinical practice, training courses and writing. She is currently the director of the Centre for Child and Family Development in Melbourne.
Memory Healing Processes and Community Intervention in Grief Work in Africa
By Augustine Nwoye. Volume 26 Issue Number 3. [PDF format - 137KB]Western literatures on bereavement acknowledge the tendency to pathological grieving among some bereaved persons. The phenomenon of pathological mourning, however, is rare in Africa because of the presence of coherent and transformative rituals of mourning. The paper argues that such rituals and performative experiences heal by addressing four principal aspects of the memory of the bereaved individual. The paper elaborates on the content, process, symbolic meanings and clinical potency of these rituals.
A Nazi in the Family Closet? [Letter from Germany]
By Hans Schindler. Volume 26 Issue Number 3. [PDF format - 140KB]Many family therapy trainees report that during the preparation of their family reconstruction, parents and grandparents don't like to give a detailed account of the Nazi era, but evade the subject. The trainees themselves have problems mentioning those subjects, because they don't know what they should ask. The silence and concealment, the avoidance of asking and the evasion of research have a long tradition in German families since 1945.
Editorial: Family Therapy's Extended Family
By Maureen Crago. Volume 26 Issue Number 3. [PDF format - 64KB]In Brief: Coming Events, Jottings and Announcements
Volume 26 Issue Number 3. [PDF format - 62KB]Worth the Bother: A Response to Carmel Flaskas
By Don Meadows. Volume 26 Issue Number 3. [PDF format - 89KB]Reviews: Independant comment on audio-visual and print materials
Volume 26 Issue Number 3. [PDF format - 109KB]Therapy Against the Odds: A Learning Experience
By Katie Splevins. Volume 26 Issue Number 3. [PDF format - 62KB]The Challenges of Recovery [Letter from Argentina]
By Lia Bikel and Eduardo H. Cazabat. Volume 26 Issue Number 3. [PDF format - 70KB]Training Programs in Family Therapy in Australia
Volume 26 Issue Number 3. [PDF format - 64KB]