Family psychotherapy has come to be the “healing of attached souls.” Like Piglet, family members need to be sure of one another or to be confidently attached. When that security is destabilized or becomes detached by environment, circumstances, or behavior, the figurative glue that permits people to “keep their lives together” breaks down. People become “unglued.” Theorists, described later in subsequent chapters, have argued over whether the therapeutic repair process—the “re-gluing” that occurs
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