A Stranger in the Family
A Stranger in The Family: Culture, Families, and Therapy is a text written by Canadian cultural psychiatrist and family therapist Vincenzo Di Nicola integrating family therapy and cultural psychiatry to create a model of cultural family therapy.
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| Author | Vincenzo Di Nicola |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Family therapy, Cultural psychiatry |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Publication date | 1997 |
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| Pages | 380 |
| ISBN | 0-393-70228-6 |
| OCLC | 36126477 |
| Preceded by | The Myth of Atlas: Families & the Therapeutic Story (editor & translator, 1989) |
| Followed by | Letters to a Young Therapist (2011) |
Di Nicola's approach to working with families across cultures brought together a new synthesis of family therapy and transcultural psychiatry. Critical reviews were positive and encouraging by leaders in family therapy, such as Mara Selvini Palazzoli and Celia Jaes Falicov, as well as those in transcultural psychiatry, such as Armando Favazza.
This preliminary work was collected and integrated into his model of cultural family therapy in A Stranger in the Family in 1997. In a recent interview with the Université de Montréal where he teaches, Di Nicola traces the origins and motivations for this work to his childhood origins as an Italian immigrant with empathy for the plight of immigrant children and families.