<p>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.</p>

Milan Systemic Family Therapy: Conversations In Theory And Practice

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hoffman, Lynn

Cecchin, Gianfranco

Penn, Peggy

Boscolo, Luigi

Psychology & Counseling

Basic Books

Irreverence: A Strategy for Therapists' Survival (The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series)

<p>Irreverence: A Strategy for Therapists' Survival marks the end result of a collaboration between three creative and highly respected therapists and writers in the family therapy field. It continues the tradition of the Milan group and later systemic thinkers by examining the way a therapist's own thinking can block the process of therapy and lead to feeling stuck. The authors define and demonstrate the use of a concept in the therapeutic field - irreverence - which allows therapists to free themselves from the limitations of their own theoretical schools of thought and the familiar hypotheses they apply to their client families. They illustrate their ideas with some very challenging family therapy cases and include an interesting consultation with the staff caring for a hospitalised patient. The book also extends the notion of irreverence beyond therapy to the fields of training and research where its application is both fresh and profound.</p>

Keeney, Bradford P.

Lane, Gerry

Ray, Wendel A.

Mental Health

Routledge

Wie kann ich Ihnen helfen, mich wieder loszuwerden?: Therapie und Beratung mit unmotivierten Klienten und in Zwangskontexten

Politics & Social Sciences

Conen, Marie L.

Politics & Government

Auer-System-Verlag Carl

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