Media reviews

Abstract

Abstract In this section we have attempted to provide reviews of videotapes, films, slide productions and other multimedia presentations which have relevance for the field of family therapy and particular usefulness for training programs and for individual study by clinicians. In the current issue a most interesting videotape, produced by John Byng-Hall and Rosemary Whiffen from the Tavistock Clinic in London, is reviewed by Dr. H. James Lurie. This tape accompanies a very interesting new volume published by Grune & Stratton on the supervisory process in family therapy. As we all know, family therapy has been most effective in bringing to the learning arena clinical data of immediacy which can provide students and teachers alike with the stimulation of moving from abstraction and speculation to the actuality of the challenges provided in everyday practice. In this tape the workers at Tavistock have brought together a multiple presentation of the current methods in supervision most in vogue both in America and Europe and by putting them into a sophisticated learning format have provided for both student and teacher an outstanding teaching and learning package. This factor is obviously of special interest to our reviewer, Dr. Lurie, who himself has pioneered in the creation of innovative and creative learning materials which go far beyond the content of subjects involved and attend to those very intricate and subtle learning factors which make the difference between an exciting experience and a mediocre chore.