Daniela Kramer-Moore & Michael Moore 
Destructive Myths in Family Therapy 
How to Overcome Barriers to Communication by Seeing and Saying — A Humanistic Perspective

Exposes destructive patterns of communication within family
cultures and provides strategies for promoting more open dialogue
among family members.



* Equips family therapists to help clients see the barriers they
place in the way of healthy communication, and adopt more
constructive alternatives

* Provides activities designed to spark open dialogue between
therapist and clients, strengthening the therapeutic relationship
and facilitating family interaction

* Includes communication strategies for reversing disengagement,
defusing power struggles, overcoming sibling rivalry, disentangling
marital problems and more

* Offers a new understanding of family dynamics, an area in which
many family therapists want to improve their skills but have
struggled to find a text to guide them in doing so

关于作者

Daniela Kramer-Moore is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the
Department of Psychology, University of Warwick. A family therapist
with many years’ experience of working with high risk adolescents
and their families, she now heads the post-graduate Psychotherapy
Centre at Oranim Academic College, Kiryat Tiv’on, Israel, where she
previously led the Masters program in Educational
Counselling.





Michael Moore is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the
Department of Psychology, University of Warwick. He is a social
psychologist with many scholarly publications in the field, and was
until recently Head of the Department of Education in Technology
and Science at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa,
Israel.