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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 Cecchinwhich include a family that is hiding a history of incest and one dominated by an anorectic girlprovide 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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I find it hard to praise this book adequately. On the one hand it's pellucidly written, and has an excellent balance between theory and practice. To my mind - as someone reading it not as a family therapist but as a management academic interested in how groups work - it makes its subject remarkably accessible. And unlike some other psychoanlytic (or similar) approaches such as Group Analysis (S H Foulkes, Bion) it is teleological rather than aeteological: it's interested in how to intervene to improve the future rather than in explaining the past. The idea of positive connotation and the refusal of the Milan therapist to become complicit in the group's system are original and compelling features of a systemic practice which can and does actually work with groups in general. Try it. It leads somewhere good.
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