ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the reader with the author’s process of learning to become a family therapist while being supervised by Dr. Salvador Minuchin. The author frames this process through learning from several mistakes she made when working with one particular family. She describes several lessons she learned during the several years that she participated in the Minuchin supervisory group. The author presents a family she worked with and various points of interaction with them, utilizing case transcripts to help explain her intent with various interventions. Interwoven within this narrative is the case transcript of when Dr. Minuchin provided her a consultation session with the same family. The author juxtaposes working with the same family, but from the position of a novice therapist with a master family therapist. The authors of the book conclude the chapter exploring what the reader can learn, especially in relation to the therapist’s style, externalizing the symptom, layers of identity, and family organization.
