Gianfranco Cecchin

Mara Selvini Palazzoli

Luigi Boscolo

Ce livre rend compte des interventions innovantes conduites par l’équipe de thérapeutes du Centre pour l’étude de la famille de Milan au sein de quinze familles et de leurs malades entre 1970 et 1974. Directe et ouverte sur les interrelations familiales et sur tous les paradoxes qui imprègnent le couple et la famille, cette approche conduit à une redéfinition des relations impliquant un comportement pathologique. Des cas d’anorexie mentale et de schizophrénie ont été traités par cette méthode avec des succès notables. Cet ouvrage de référence en psychologie systémique est facile d’accès et met en scène des concepts utiles dans le cadre d’une psychothérapie familiale. Le travail original qui y a été développé est présenté très clairement et démontre notamment en quoi la thérapie s’apparente, pour l’école de Milan, à un processus d’apprentissage par essais et erreurs. Une approche incontournable pour les thérapeutes intéressés par la systémie.

La thérapie systémique face aux familles à transaction schizophrénique

Paradoxe et contreparadoxe

Two central ideas have become part of the orthodoxy of modern family therapy thinking. The first is that the therapist is part of the system he or she observes, and the second is that the therapist and family create a co-evolving reality through their interactions until now. No one has described the process by which these concepts are played out in the course of therapy. Cecchin, Lane and Ray are opening the way for a new field of enquiry in psychotherapy. In this book the authors identify the therapist's values and beliefs which they describe as prejudices, then they identify the equivalent prejudices held by the family, and finally they trace the ways a prejudice from one side affects the other and is, in turn, affected by the other. The book is a blend of theoretical discussion supported by case examples from therapy and the world at large. Readers of this book will discover values about themselves which guide their therapy but have long since been rendered to some unconscious realm: values about certainty, control, accountability and the search for understanding.

Cybernetics of Prejudices in the Practice of Psychotherapy

Irreverence: A strategy for Therapists' Survival marks the end result of a collaboration between the creative and highly respected therapists and writers in the family therapy field. It continues the tradition of the Milan group and later systemic thinkers to examine 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, such as violence and incest, and include an interesting consultation with the staff caring for a hospitalized 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.

Gianfranco Cecchin

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