Positive Family Therapy

List of Stories.- A Story for the Positive Process: The Dream.- Six Theses of Positive Family Therapy.- I. Introduction to the Theory of Positive Family Therapy.- 1. The Situation in Science, Religion, Education, and Psychotherapy.- 2. What Is "Family Therapy"?.- 3. What Does "Positive Family Therapy" Mean?.- 4. Guidelines for the Reader.- II. Transcultural Psychotherapy (The East-West Concept).- 1. Social Changes and the Image of Man.- 2. Practical Aspects of the East-West Concept in Family Therapy.- III. From Family Therapy to Positive Family Therapy.- 1. The Family as Hell.- 2. The Family as Heaven.- 3. The Family as Fate.- 4. Forms of the Family.- 5. The Family Equilibrium.- 6. Family Therapy: Who Should be Treated?.- 7. Family or Clinic.- 8. The Development of Family Therapy.- 9. What Does Positive Family Therapy Deal With?.- IV. The Tools of Positive Family Therapy.- 1. The Three Pillars of Positive Family Therapy.- 2. The Positive Starting Point.- 3. What is "Positive Family Therapy"?.- 4. The Positive Image of Man - Unity in Diversity.- 5. The Basic Capabilities in the Literature.- 6. Possibilities for Reinterpretation.- 7. Practical Applications of the "Positive Interpretations".- 8. Aids for Changing One's Perspective.- 9. What Are "Concepts"?.- 10. Positive Family Therapy Does Not Remove Anything.- 11. The Patient as Therapist.- 12. The Positive Procedure in the Therapeutic Process.- V. Conflict Contents and Conflict Dynamics.- 1. Four Forms of Dealing with Conflict and How They Work.- 2. The Four Forms of Dealing with Conflict, as Used in Positive Family Therapy.- 3. The Four Model Dimensions.- 4. The Four Forms of the Model Dimensions in Positive Family Therapy.- 5. Actual Capabilities.- 6. Microtraumas: The So-called Little Things.-7. Making Contents Concrete.- 8. The Significance of the Actual Capabilities.- 9. Actual Capabilities as Signs of Transcultural Differences.- 10. Using the Differentiation Analytical Inventory (DAI).- 11. Actual Conflict and

Prof. h.c. Dr. med. Nossrat Peseschkian, Facharzt für Psychiatrie, Neurologie und Psychotherapie, wurde 1933 im Iran geboren und lebte seit 1954 in Deutschland. Er war Begründer der Positiven Psychotherapie; eine intensive Forschungs- und Lehrtätigkeit führte ihn in über 60 Staaten. Nossrat Peseschkian war Autor einer Vielzahl erfolgreicher Bücher, die in über 25 Sprachen übersetzt worden sind. Er starb am 27.4.2010.