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Systems-centered therapy is theory driven, therefore every intervention is in fact an hypothesis. 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 system-centered norms to a group.
List of contents
Introduction. 1. Orientation to the systems-centered perspective. 2. The verbatim script of an inpatient group psychotherapy session using the systems-centered approach with the therapist's reactions. 3. The techniques of systems-centered therapy. 4. The theory behind the practice of systems-centered therapy. References. Index.
About the author
Yvonne M. Agazarian, EdD is a consulting affiliate to the Friends Hospital, Philadelphia and the Director of the Systems-Centered Training Institute She teaches, trains and supervises systems-centred therapists internationally, and practises in Philadelphia, USA. She has developed the theory of living human systems and its systems-centred practice. She co-authored The Visible and Invisible Group in 1981 and wrote Systems-centered Therapy for Groups, published in 1997. Also in 1997 she received the Group Psychologist of the Year award from the American Psychological Association `for her involvement in research, publication, teaching and training. She exemplifies the finest in scholarship in the discipline of psychology. As a group psychologist she has contributed to expanding our knowledge of the boundaries between clinical and social psychology with the investigation of living human systems and systems-centered group and individual therapy. Her considerable body of work illustrates the highest blend of creativity and learning'.
Summary
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 Other chapters give an overview of the systems-centered ideas, their formulation as a theory, and the systems-centered methods that put the theory into practice.
