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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855750317 ISBN 13: 9781855750319

Publisher: Routledge, 1993

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Gianfranco Cecchin (August 22 1932 - February 2 2004) was an Italian psychiatrist and psychotherapist, and founder - along with Mara Palazzoli , Luigi Boscolo and Giuliana Prata - of the movement of systemic family therapy known today as the Milan Approach.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1855750317
• ISBN 13: 9781855750319
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96
• Editor: Cecchin Gianfranco, Lane Gerry, Ray Wendel A.