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In recent years, systemic theory and practice adopted a dialogical
orientation, centred on the persons of the therapist and client.
This has led to a growing attention toward emotions, which, in this
book, is developed in terms of emotional systems. An emotional
system in therapy may be viewed as the sum of the emotions existing
and interacting in people's lives. Relevant changes in life happen
when emotional stances and sequences change within the system,
leading, for example, to a greater sense of agency or hope, or to a
different perception of the situation. This book looks at emotions
within human systems in terms of dominant and silent emotions,
which shape and are shaped by human relationships, and may be
played in several ways according to reciprocal emotional
positioning. The therapist uses his or her own feeling, and
understanding of the emotions within the therapeutic dialogue, in
order to create hypotheses and new dialogues which allow change.
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.
In recent years, systemic theory and practice adopted a dialogical
orientation, centred on the persons of the therapist and client.
This has led to a growing attention toward emotions, which, in this
book, is developed in terms of emotional systems. An emotional
system in therapy may be viewed as the sum of the emotions existing
and interacting in people's lives. Relevant changes in life happen
when emotional stances and sequences change within the system,
leading, for example, to a greater sense of agency or hope, or to a
different perception of the situation. This book looks at emotions
within human systems in terms of dominant and silent emotions,
which shape and are shaped by human relationships, and may be
played in several ways according to reciprocal emotional
positioning. The therapist uses his or her own feeling, and
understanding of the emotions within the therapeutic dialogue, in
order to create hypotheses and new dialogues which allow change.
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.
The authors describe the work they are doing with individual
clients in Milan. Locating themselves clearly within the tradition
of the Milan approach and more recent social constructionist and
narrative influences, and articulating continually a broad systemic
framework emphasizing meaning problems in context and relationship,
they introduce a range of ideas taken from psychoanalysis,
strategic therapy, Gestalt therapy and narrative work. They
describe the therapy as Brief/Long-term therapy and introduce new
interviewing techniques, such as connecting the past, present and
future in a way that releases clients and helps them construct new
narratives for the future; inviting the patient to speak to the
therapist as an absent family member; and working with the client
to monitor their own therapy. The book is written with a freshness
that suggests the authors are describing "work in progress", and
the reader is privy to the authors' own thoughts and reactions as
they comment on the process of their therapy cases. This is a
demystifying book, for it allows the reader to understand why one
particular technique was preferred over another.
The authors describe the work they are doing with individual
clients in Milan. Locating themselves clearly within the tradition
of the Milan approach and more recent social constructionist and
narrative influences, and articulating continually a broad systemic
framework emphasizing meaning problems in context and relationship,
they introduc
In this book, the author describes the dialogic therapist as
someone whose therapy is guided by the use of systemic hypotheses,
helping the readers understand how the ideas and techniques can
take their place among the vast array of ideas in the systemic
field.
Several good books exist about systemic understanding in therapy
and a few about dialogic understanding. However, none exist that
try to bridge the gap between these two world views, which have
some similarities, but also a whole array of differences. The most
striking difference between these two world views is the very
vantage point for observation each of them holds. According to
systemic theory, we exist only in and because of the network of
relationships we are embedded in. In dialogic theory, we inhabit
different worlds, and we need dialogue in order to make them
communicate with each other. Putting these different views together
poses problems but is a good dialogic exercise as well. The author
found it increasingly necessary to undertake this exercise as he
felt more and more uncomfortable with the more conventional
versions of Batesonian systemic wisdom he had adopted in previous
years, while at the same time he could not feel convinced by some
of the new ideas about dialogue.
Este libro une la brecha entre dos visiones del mundo en la
terapia: el entendimiento sistémico y el dialógico. De acuerdo
con la teorÃa sistémica, existimos solo dentro y a causa de una
red de relaciones en la cual estamos inmersos; en tanto, en la
teorÃa dialógica, habitamos en mundos diferentes y necesitamos el
diálogo para que esos mundos se comuniquen entre sÃ.
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