CARL WHITAKER, MD - Work With Family, from an experimental session of Re...

Interviewing for Solution 4th Edition

When my dear friend Anabela, few years ago, shared with me the Solution Focus Approach in family Therapy and Peter de Jong and Insoo Kim Berg book “Interviewing for Solutions” I had a quite skeptical reaction. At that time we were preparing a training course for psychologist and social workers, working as liaisons between families that had their children placed and the residential institutions. The book seams at that time too superficial and too much link to the positive psychology movement.

Two years after I have two confess the solution focus approach become a main tool in my daily therapeutic tool box particularly when I´m working the mandated clients and now “Interviewing for Solutions” is a frequent book on my desk.

Soon will be available the 4^th Edition of this outstanding book, the content can be already consulted at publisher web site:

Interviewingfor Solutions 4th Edition.

Debating truth, erros and distorting in systemic psychotherapy

David Pockoc a think provoketive author, had published a small article, puting Patricia Crittenden, Attachment Model (DMM) at the hart of the debate around modern and posmodern psychotherapy. You may find the article by clinking in the following link. David Pockoc Article.

Von Forster in Palo Alto

One of the last appearances of Heinz Von Forster in Palo Alto.

Introduction to Literature Theory

Professor Paul Fry in 2009 gave a series of lectures about Literature Theory. All lectures are available online in Yale Web Site or in the youtube.

The lectures are particular interesting for those you want to have a deep understanding of pos structuralism theory and want to embrace pos modern psychotherapy models. 

Multi Family Therapy in Europe

Multi Family Therapy, has been developed all aroud the world, but the London team of the Marlborough Family Service has made great contributions to the field in the last thirty twenty years.

Recently in a European Partnership the Marlborough developed a Multi Family Approach to work with abusive families, which is inovative and challenging in the way it matches more traditional views of family therapy with pos-modern perspectives and techniniques like reflective teams.

You can download the 2007 report in:

http://www.multifamilyassessment.net/daphne/previous/files/finalEN.pdf

Gregory Bateson & Margaret Mead

Gregory Bateson and his first wife Margaret Mead are responsible for some notable Antropologic videos. Here is one of them.