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...

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...

This book, part of the Systemic Thinking and Practice Series, marks the end 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. Irreverence is a concept that allows therapists to free themselves from these limitations.

Es gehört schon eine gehörige Portion Mut und Abgeklärtheit dazu, wenn ein Autor wie Gianfranco Cecchin mit zwei Kollegen dazu aufruft, sich respektlos gegenüber gewohnten therapeutischen Wahrheiten zu zeigen, an vertrauten Prämissen zu zweifeln und liebgewonnene Hypothesen fallen zu lassen, wenn sie für gewünschte Veränderungen nicht mehr dienlich sind.§Dieses Buch belegt, dass ein derartiges Wagnis mit großem Erfolg gekrönt ist.