Books by Jay Haley
“If therapy is about change, not insight, then in some important way you’re not tethered to reality. This tremendously empowers the therapist, but it also changes our whole sense of what is to be a person. The notion that who I am is this stable entity gets exploded. In fact, and the evidence for this is overwhelming, who I am and who you are is pretty much a plaything of context and assumptions. Change the context, change the assumptions, and you change the self. Do that with people in a relationship, and you change the relationship. As with Whitaker, this book will give you the sense, wow, I never imagined that therapists could do this. It’s enormously exciting, but for those people who have a traditional view of the self, it’s also deeply challenging.” Read more...
The best books on Relationship Therapy
Mira Kirshenbaum, Psychologist
Interviews where books by Jay Haley were recommended
The best books on Relationship Therapy, recommended by Mira Kirshenbaum
Systems thinking is key to figuring out how relationships work, says Mira Kirshenbaum, psychotherapist and clinical director of the Chestnut Hill Institute. She chooses the best books to help us understand modern relationship therapy.
