A Stranger in the Family

A Stranger in the Family: Culture, Families, and Therapy
Cover of the first edition
AuthorVincenzo Di Nicola
LanguageEnglish
SubjectFamily therapy, Cultural psychiatry
PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
Publication date
1997
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Pages380
ISBN0-393-70228-6
OCLC36126477
Preceded byThe Myth of Atlas: Families & the Therapeutic Story (editor & translator, 1989) 
Followed byLetters to a Young Therapist (2011) 

A Stranger in The Family: Culture, Families, and Therapy[1] is a text written by Canadian cultural psychiatrist and family therapist Vincenzo Di Nicola integrating family therapy and cultural psychiatry to create a model of cultural family therapy.

Di Nicola's approach to working with families across cultures brought together a new synthesis of family therapy and transcultural psychiatry.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Critical reviews were positive and encouraging by leaders in family therapy, such as Mara Selvini Palazzoli[9] and Celia Jaes Falicov,[10] as well as those in transcultural psychiatry, such as Armando Favazza.[11]

This preliminary work was collected and integrated into his model of cultural family therapy in A Stranger in the Family in 1997. In a recent interview with the Université de Montréal where he teaches, Di Nicola traces the origins and motivations for this work to his childhood origins as an Italian immigrant with empathy for the plight of immigrant children and families.[12]

  1. ^ Di Nicola, Vincenzo (1997). A Stranger in the Family: Culture, Families, and Therapy (1st ed.). New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-70228-6. OCLC 36126477.
  2. ^ DiNicola, Vincenzo F. (1985). "Le tiers monde à notre porte: Les immigrants et la thérapie familiale [The Third World in our own back¬yard: Immigrants and family therapy]". Systèmes Humains. 1 (3): 39–54.
  3. ^ DiNicola, Vincenzo F. (1985). "Family Therapy and Transcultural Psychiatry: An Emerging Synthesis Part I: The Conceptual Basis". Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review. 22 (2): 81–113. doi:10.1177/136346158502200201. ISSN 0041-1108. S2CID 144073186.
  4. ^ DiNicola, Vincenzo F. (1985). "Family Therapy and Transcultural Psychiatry: An Emerging Synthesis: Part II: Portability and Culture Change". Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review. 22 (3): 151–180. doi:10.1177/136346158502200301. ISSN 0041-1108. S2CID 144756928.
  5. ^ DiNicola, Vincenzo F. (1986). "Beyond Babel: Family therapy as cultural translation". International Journal of Family Psychiatry. 7 (2): 179–191.
  6. ^ Andolfi, Maurizio; Haber, Russell (1994). Please Help Me with this Family. New York: Psychology Press. p. 33‑52. ISBN 978-0-87630-748-9.
  7. ^ DiNicola, Vincenzo (1997). "Nuove realta sociali, nuovi modelli di terapia: Terapia familiare culturale per un mondo in trasformazione" [New social realities, new models of therapy: Cultural family therapy for a changing world]. Terapia Familiare (in Italian). 54. Rome: 5–9. eISSN 1972-5442. ISSN 0391-2868.
  8. ^ DiNicola, Vincenzo (1997). "Culture and the web of meaning: Creating family and social contexts for human predicaments". Dolentium Hominum. 34. Vatican City: 97–100. OCLC 759478340.
  9. ^ Selvini Palazzoli, Mara (1986). "COMMENTS ON DI NICOLA's "FAMILY THERAPY AND TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY: PARTS 1 AND 2 (Published in T.P.R.R. Volume XXII, Nos. 2 and 3, pp. 81-113 and 151-180). LETTER FROM MARA SELVINI PALAZZOLI, M.D., Nuovo Centro per Lo Studio della Famiglia, Viale Vitorio Veneto, 12, Milano 21124, Italy". Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review. 23 (1): 83–85. doi:10.1177/136346158602300114. ISSN 0041-1108.
  10. ^ Falicov, Celia Jaes (1986). "Comments on DI NICOLA's Family Therapy and Transcultural Psychiatry: Parts 1 and 2 (TPRR, XXII, Nos. 2 and 3, pp. 81-113 and 151-180), by CELIA JAES FALICOV, San Diego Family Institute and Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego, la Jolla, California 92093, U. S. A". Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review. 23 (2): 165–169. doi:10.1177/136346158602300218. ISSN 0041-1108.
  11. ^ Favazza, Armando R (1986). "LETTER FROM ARMANDO R. FAVAZZA, M.D., Section of General Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, Three Hospital Drive, Columbia, Missouri 65201, U.S.A". Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review. 23 (1): 86–91. doi:10.1177/136346158602300115. ISSN 0041-1108. S2CID 220521739.
  12. ^ Tremblay, Mylène (2022-05-12). "Un vétéran de la psychiatrie tourné vers les jeunes d'ici et d'ailleurs". nouvelles.umontreal.ca (in French). Retrieved 2022-10-08.