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This is the most comprehensive study of the role of time in psychotherapy. It illustrates how time is experienced in different ways - individual time, family time, social time - and how time can act as an invaluable metaphor in shaping clinical practice within a systemic approach.
List of contents
Series co-editor foreword
Foreword by Alan Cooklin
Prologue
Note to the text
Foreword 1993 by Helm Stierlin
Introduction
1. A journey in time: the beginning
2. Reasoning about time
3. Models of interactive time: family time
4. The observer and time
5. Times in consultation and therapy
6. Past into present
7. Future into present
8. Time and rituals
9. Three clinical cases
10. The two Messiahs
Appendixes
References
Index
About the author
Luigi Boscolo, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and systemic therapist, was part of the original Milan systemic team, led by Mara Selvini Palazzoli. He co-founded and co-directed the Centro Milanese di Terapia della Famiglia with Gianfranco Cecchin. He is also the co-author of
Paradox and Counterparadox (1978)
, Milan Systemic Family Therapy (1987), and
Systemic Therapy with Individuals (1996)
.Paolo Bertrando, psychiatrist and systemic therapist, was trained in Milan by Luigi Boscolo and Gianfranco Cecchin. After 20 years as trainer at the Centro Milanese di Terapia della Famiglia, he founded with Claudia Lini the Systemic-Dialogical School in Bergamo (Italy). He is the author of, among others,
Systemic Therapy with Individuals (1996, with Luigi Boscolo),
The Dialogical Therapist (2007), and
Emotions and the Therapist (2015).
Summary
This is the most comprehensive study of the role of time in psychotherapy. It illustrates how time is experienced in different ways – individual time, family time, social time – and how time can act as an invaluable metaphor in shaping clinical practice within a systemic approach.
