<p><strong>What is the origin of psychosis? What is the complex relationship between so-called 'mental illness' and the problems which afflict families? The attempt to provide an answer to these questions began with the courageous decision to transform a professional practice into a centre for research.</strong></p> To this end, Mara Selvini Palazzoli conducted family therapy sessions in a highly original context, characterized by the unusual length of time devoted to the sittings (half a day); by the presence of a team of therapists drawn from the different working backgrounds and orientations; by direct observation, made possible by the use of a one-way mirror; and by a systematic investigation of the effects of the therapies based on written transcriptions of all the sessions, in addition to audio and visual recordings.

Family Games: General Models of Psychotic Processes in the Family

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Palazzoli, Mara Selvini

Psychology & Counseling

W.W.Norton&Company

Hidden Games Organztns

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Pantheon

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Hidden Games of Organizations

Ugazio, Valeria

Anolli, Luigi

Giossi, Lucia

Pisano, Innocenzo

Ricci, Carlo

Sacchi, Marica

Di Blasio, Paola

Mental Health

Routledge

Self-Starvation: From Individual to Family Therapy in the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa

Medical Books

Jason Aronson, Inc.

Paradox and Counterparadox: A New Model in the Therapy of the Family in Schizophrenic Transaction

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

Self-Starvation: From Individual to Family Therapy in the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa (Master Work Series) (The Master Work Series)

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