The systems-centered approach to organizations brings an innovative technology that makes it possible for organizations and work groups to lower the personalizing that is so troublesome for the people in organizations. Instead, learning to think "systems" shifts towards being able to see oneself in one's role and context.

This book illustrates actual examples of the basic systems-centered methods being applied in organizational work groups, in coaching, and in school and educational settings. The systems-centered approach introduces both a new perspective and an inventive technology:...

Systems-centred practice and its theory are one of the most important developments in group psychology in the last forty years. In this book Yvonne Agazarian traces the evolution of her ideas and their application to create a meta-theory, the theory of living human systems. Autobiography of a Theory follows Agazarian as she thinks her way through different stages, creating a theoretical background for SAVI (System for Analyzing Verbal Interaction), which she developed with Anita Simon, developing a theory of the Invisible Group for the book she wrote with Richard Peters and expanding on...

Systems-centered therapy is theory driven, therefore every intervention is in fact an hypothesis that tests both the validity of the theory and the reliability of its practice as it applies to short and long-term therapy with individuals, families, couples and groups. This book is built around the transcript of an inpatient therapy session, giving the reader the opportunity to follow verbatim how systems-centered therapy actually works. The script tracks the initial techniques that introduce systems-centered norms to a group. These include encouraging patients to explore their experience...

Synthesizing psychoanalytic and group dynamic approaches to group life, this text offers practical guidelines. It advocates the simultaneous use of: the psychoanalytic perspective for observing the visible group of people and their interactions, and a General Systems Field Theory perspective for observing the invisible group-as-a-whole.

The author has developed a theory of Living Human Systems and its systems-centered practice. This book presents a series of chapters that trace the development of the theory of Living Human Systems through the years of 1987 to 2002. As the theory develops, so do the methods and techniques that put it into practice. The last chapter summarizes the current application and the nuts and bolts of systems-centered therapy. It also describes in detail the connection between the hierarchy of defenses modifications and the specific phases of system development that determine readiness for change.

The author has developed a theory of Living Human Systems and its systems-centered practice. This book presents a series of chapters that trace the de...