The Times of Time: A Perspective on Time in Systemic Therapy and Consultation (The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Bertrando, Paolo

Boscolo, Luigi

Mental Health

Routledge

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, social time - and how time can act as an invaluable metaphor in shaping clinical practice within a systemic approach, although 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 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.

A guide to systemic therapy that focuses on each family member's experience of time as a source of dysfunction. Following the concept of time as a metaphor, the authors use case histories to introduce a therapeutic strategy for diffusing family conflicts and promoting harmony. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Times of Time: A New Perspective in Systemic Therapy and Consultation

Psychology & Counseling

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

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 behavior. 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.

Milan Systemic Family Therapy: Conversations In Theory And Practice

Hoffman, Lynn

Cecchin, Gianfranco

Penn, Peggy

Basic Books

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