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This is the most comprehensive study of the role of time in
psychotherapy. It illustrates how time is experienced in different
ways - individual time, family time, and social time - and how time
can act as an invaluable metaphor in shaping clinical practice
within a systemic approach, while maintaining connections with
other approaches, such as psychoanalysis and cognitive therapies. A
seminal volume on this topic, the book looks at issues such as the
duration of therapy; the relevance of past, present, and future in
therapy; and the balance of memory and oblivion. It also includes a
discussion of how time is framed in other disciplines, including
sociology, history, and psychopathology, whilst exploring the
concept in practical terms through case vignettes and complete case
histories, including the transcripts of actual sessions. The reader
is thus given a set of guidelines for dealing with time issues in
therapy from a systemic perspective. Originally published in 1993,
the book has been updated to create a dialogue with contemporary
theoretical debates, as well as social and technological changes.
It will fascinate all psychotherapists, particularly those
interested in a systemic practice.
This is the most comprehensive study of the role of time in
psychotherapy. It illustrates how time is experienced in different
ways - individual time, family time, and social time - and how time
can act as an invaluable metaphor in shaping clinical practice
within a systemic approach, while maintaining connections with
other approaches, such as psychoanalysis and cognitive therapies. A
seminal volume on this topic, the book looks at issues such as the
duration of therapy; the relevance of past, present, and future in
therapy; and the balance of memory and oblivion. It also includes a
discussion of how time is framed in other disciplines, including
sociology, history, and psychopathology, whilst exploring the
concept in practical terms through case vignettes and complete case
histories, including the transcripts of actual sessions. The reader
is thus given a set of guidelines for dealing with time issues in
therapy from a systemic perspective. Originally published in 1993,
the book has been updated to create a dialogue with contemporary
theoretical debates, as well as social and technological changes.
It will fascinate all psychotherapists, particularly those
interested in a systemic practice.
Paradox and Counterparadox introduces the English-speaking public
to the first results of a research plan drawn up my the Milan
Center for Family Studies at the end of 1971 and put into practice
at the beginning of 1972. The book reports the therapeutic work
carried out by the authors with fifteen families, five with
children presenting serious psychotic disturbances, and ten with
young adults diagnosed as schizophrenics in acute phase. Though
accepting the Bleulerian term schizophrenia, by now in general use,
the authors have used it to indicate not the sickness of an
individual as in the traditional medical model but a peculiar
pattern of communication inseparable from the other patterns of
communication observable in the natural group (in this case, the
family) in which it manifests itself. Starting from the position
that modern sciences concerned with communication emphasize the
central role of paradox as the source of paralyzing disturbances as
well as of creative transformations, the authors demonstrate that
it is possible to intervene in a family in schizophrenic
transaction by devising original and paradoxical methods in order
to release the action-pattern from disturbance to transformation.
The counterparadoxes generated in this process, illustrated through
a great number of examples, are rigorously analyzed in accordance
with the conceptual models provided by general systems theory, by
cybernetics, and by the pragmatics of human communication. The
reader will recognize, in the cases presented, the stimulating
originality and efficacy of this approach, one whose interest
exceeds the purely clinical and which offers new points of
departure for an ecologic vision of human relationships. A Jason
Aronson Book"
This long-awaited book is the first to offer a complete and clear
presentation of the therapy of the Milan Associates, Luigi Boscolo
and Gianfranco Cecchin. Based on cybernetic theory, their work has
had dramatic success in helping families change behaviour. This
practical and enlightening book uses clinical cases and the
fascinating conversations among the four authors to examine the
relationship between Milan theory and practice.Transcripts of
sessions conducted by Boscolo and Cecchin,which include a family
that is hiding a history of incest and one dominated by an
anorectic girl,provide vivid examples of family interaction and
therapeutic imagination. In the accompanying conversations with
Boscolo and Cecchin about these sessions, Hoffman and Penn take us
behind the scenes to show how the therapists think through and
conduct their therapy. These highly readable conversations clarify
the essentials of the therapy, including hypothesizing, circular
questioning, positive connotation, and crafting interventions. Like
Milan therapy itself, the interviews are recursive new ideas about
the therapy feed back into the conversations and stimulate further
revelations. A lengthy introduction sets the Milan approach in
historical context, and introductions to the individual cases
highlight the main ideas.
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