# The Family Interpreted

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- Book: [The Family Interpreted](https://www.bookquiver.com/deborah-luepnitz/the-family-interpreted) ([The Family Interpreted.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/deborah-luepnitz/the-family-interpreted.md))
- Authors: [Deborah Luepnitz](https://www.bookquiver.com/deborah-luepnitz), [Paki Wieland](https://www.bookquiver.com/paki-wieland)
- Publisher: basic_books
- ISBN: 978-04-6502-351-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 1992-06-24
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The paradox of the contemporary family is that it is both patriarchal and father-absent. Family therapists reproduce these problems by blaming mothers, protecting fathers, ignoring issues of race and class, and settling for superficial symptom relief. In The Family Interpreted, Deborah Anna Luepnitz proposes a new practice grounded in psychoana-lytic feminism. Since its publication in 1988, this intelligent, irreverent, and incorrigibly witty book has become a classic, admired by the therapeutic community and feminist scholars. Luepnitz's work has permanently altered the debate about families, culture, and psychological change.