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- Title
Brief Strategic Therapy From Origins to the Italian Model.
- Authors
Bonsangue, Monica
- Abstract
This article presents the development of the brief strategic therapy since its birth ('60s-'70s -- USA) to its arrival in Europe. The Strategic Therapy Center in Arezzo, Italy was born from the collaboration of Paul Watzlawick and Giorgio Nardone. Since then the Strategic Therapy Center has represented a reference point in the development and the evolution of brief and strategic therapies, intervention models that share the systemic and constructivist matrix according to which the interventions (in all their technical expressions) are those to be adjusted to the client and not the other way around. The article presents the seven points of "split" determined by the Arezzo strategic model, as opposed to classical approaches and its entrance in the panoramic of psychotherapies: using the constructivist point of view regarding "subjective truths" which substitute "absolute truths", passing from the linear logic to the circular one, the primacy of the process study at the expense of the content, the study of "how a problem works" instead of "why does the problem exist", the therapist's idea as a very influential variable in the changing process, turning to non-ordinary logics, using action-intervention. In the end, a short description about the definition of the therapeutic protocol and its operative features is presented.
- Subjects
ITALY; STRATEGIC therapy; PSYCHOTHERAPY; WATZLAWICK, Paul; NARDONE, Giorgio
- Publication
Journal of Experiential Psychotherapy / Revista de PSIHOterapie Experientiala, 2012, Vol 15, Issue 2, p48
- ISSN
1453-634X
- Publication type
Article