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Milan Systemic Family Therapy

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.

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Milan Systemic Family Therapy

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.

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Milan Systemic Family Therapy Conversations in Theory and Practice LUIGI BOSCOLO GIANFRANCO CECCHIN LYNN HOFFMAN PEGGY PENN Basic Books, Inc., Publishers New York To our trainees Library of Congress Cataloging in-Publication Data Milan systemic family therapy. [Bibliographic references: p, 331, Includes index 1. Contextual therapy—Case studies, 2, Family peychotherapy—Case studies, I. Bosealo, Luh RC4BB55MS5 1987 616.8956 86-7198 ISBN 0-465-04596-0 Copyright © 1987 by Basic Books, Ine Printed in the United States of America Designed by Vincent Torre ‘with Barbara DuPree Knowles 89 90 RRD 98765432 CONTENTS Acknowledgments How This Book Was Made INTRODUCTION parT 1 PART 2 PARTS PART 4 References Index From Psychoanalysis to Systems The Crying Boy Introduction The Case: Consultation and Conversation ‘The Family with a Secret Introduction The Case: Consultation and Conversation The Anorectic Store Introduction The Case: Consultation and Conversation The Girl Who Got Stuck to Her Mother Introduction The Case: Consultation and Conversation 29 29 38 93 93 104 183 183 190 253 253 266 331 333 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Tx AUTHORS would like to acknowledge first of all the inspiring work of Dr. Mara Selvini Palazzoli and Dr. Guiliana Prata; it was part of the matrix within which this book evolved. We are also greatly indebted to Dr. Karl Tomm, Dr. Esther Gelcer, and Dr. Helm Stierlin for their help. Last but not least, our thanks go to Jo Ann Miller, whose patience and intelligence as an editor were crucial in getting the book into its final form,

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