Family Identity: Ties, Symbols, and Transitions
Gender, generations, and lineage; faith, hope, and justice; gifts, duties, and debts; affection, responsibility, and generativity; values, secrets, and objectives; transmissions and transitions: these are the primary themes of family. They refer to what the family relationship builds in terms of organizational structure, motives, and objectives. Family assumes different forms and attire according to culture and the passage of time, but there are seeds that pass constantly through the millstone of family relationships and make up its identity.

Family Identity: Ties, Symbols, and Transitions is the fruit of many years of research, and of the fertile exchanges with researchers all over the world, through personal contact as well as through their writings. The aim of this volume is to bring into focus all the many themes that help to construct family identity. It provides a conceptualization of the family that is both fresh and traditional.

This book will appeal to researchers and students in family studies, developmental psychology, social psychology, and clinical psychology.
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Family Identity: Ties, Symbols, and Transitions
Gender, generations, and lineage; faith, hope, and justice; gifts, duties, and debts; affection, responsibility, and generativity; values, secrets, and objectives; transmissions and transitions: these are the primary themes of family. They refer to what the family relationship builds in terms of organizational structure, motives, and objectives. Family assumes different forms and attire according to culture and the passage of time, but there are seeds that pass constantly through the millstone of family relationships and make up its identity.

Family Identity: Ties, Symbols, and Transitions is the fruit of many years of research, and of the fertile exchanges with researchers all over the world, through personal contact as well as through their writings. The aim of this volume is to bring into focus all the many themes that help to construct family identity. It provides a conceptualization of the family that is both fresh and traditional.

This book will appeal to researchers and students in family studies, developmental psychology, social psychology, and clinical psychology.
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Family Identity: Ties, Symbols, and Transitions

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Family Identity: Ties, Symbols, and Transitions

Family Identity: Ties, Symbols, and Transitions

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Gender, generations, and lineage; faith, hope, and justice; gifts, duties, and debts; affection, responsibility, and generativity; values, secrets, and objectives; transmissions and transitions: these are the primary themes of family. They refer to what the family relationship builds in terms of organizational structure, motives, and objectives. Family assumes different forms and attire according to culture and the passage of time, but there are seeds that pass constantly through the millstone of family relationships and make up its identity.

Family Identity: Ties, Symbols, and Transitions is the fruit of many years of research, and of the fertile exchanges with researchers all over the world, through personal contact as well as through their writings. The aim of this volume is to bring into focus all the many themes that help to construct family identity. It provides a conceptualization of the family that is both fresh and traditional.

This book will appeal to researchers and students in family studies, developmental psychology, social psychology, and clinical psychology.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780805852318
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 03/28/2006
Pages: 250
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Authored by Cigoli, Vittorio; Scabini, Eugenia

Table of Contents


Foreword   Robert E. Emery     ix
Preface     xiii
The Gallery of Time: Picturing the Family     1
Family Mythologies in Greek and Roman Culture     1
The Christian Influence on Family Life     6
Family Paintings: Religious and Secular Views     9
Modern Times: New Representations of the Family     16
The Relational-Symbolic Model and Its Principles     24
Casting the Net     24
Pitching the Tent: The Three Principles     25
Trinitarian Values and Complexity: The Question of Method     45
The Cores of the Relationship     48
The Marital Bond and the Pact of Trust     49
The Generational Tie and Its Dual Nature     53
The Sibling Bond: Difference and Sharing     63
Bonding With the Community: Mediation or Reciprocal Influence?     68
The Cores of the Relationship     73
The Epiphany of Relationships and Its Methodology     76
Critical Events, Transitions, and Aims     76
The Threads of Methodology     83
The Destinies of the Couple's Pact     92
Encountering Destiny: Families of Origin and Cultural Change     91
Encountering the Other: Factors and Ingredients in theRelationship     95
Making the Pact: The Promise and the Secret Agreement     99
Beyond the Break-Up of Divorce     112
Reconstituted Couples: Boundaries, Hierarchies, Triangularity     119
The Parental Bond: Transitions and Tasks     126
Becoming Parents: The Generational Scenario     126
The Adoptive Bond: A Radical Kind of Parenthood     136
The Adoptive Pact and Clinical Intervention     147
Assisted Procreation: A New Form of Parenthood     154
Becoming an Adult: A Generational Impasse?     158
Tasks As Partners and Children     161
Tasks As Parents     161
Parents and Children Compared     165
Beyond Family Boundaries: Illness and Migration     174
Changing Scenarios     174
Clinical Investigations in Fact and Fiction     176
Case Studies by Family     182
Taking the Topmost Twig of the Cedar     189
Flight and Transition     191
Adamah     206
References     209
Author Index     227
Subject Index     235
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