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.

What fits? Looking for symmetries and complementarities...

Kenneth Gergen in Chile

Kenneth Gergen is one of the ideologists of Social Constructionism Theory and one of the most thought provocative psychologists of our times. His relational view of the self changed the traditional emphasis on the individual mind to the relational process. For Gergen meaning doesn’t exit inside the self or inside the mind, meaning exist in our social relational spaceK. Gergen few years ago gave a lecture in Chile, about is main ideas, and particular about Social Constructionism as a new paradigm. The lecture is in the youtube, we embedded the first part and published the links to the other parts of the lecture.

• Keneth Gergen in Chile Part 2
• Keneth Gergen in Chile Part 3
• Keneth Gergen in Chile Part 4
• Keneth Gergen in Chile Part 5
• Keneth Gergen in Chile Part 6
• Keneth Gergen in Chile Part 7
• Keneth Gergen in Chile Part 8
• Keneth Gergen in Chile Part 9
• Keneth Gergen in Chile Part 10
• Kenneth Gergen in Chile Part 11
• Kenneth Gergen in Chile Part 12

Harry Goolishian in Bodø

It was twenty three years ago: "In January 1988 Bjørn Reigstad invited Harry Goolishian to hold a week of lectures and workshops at BUPA, the Child and Adolescent Department of Nordland Psychiatric Hospital in Bodø, Northern Norway. Harry presented the Problem Systems Approach that was later adapted by Harlene Anderson into Collaborative Therapy."

The workshop is published in video files:

http://www.balmbra.no/Videos.htm

New Marcelo Pakman Book

“Palabras que permanecen, palabras por venir...” is the new published book by Marcelo Pakman (2011). The book is original written is Spanish, and I believed that there is no English translation yet. 

The book is available on French Amazon.  

For Spanish readers there is a interesting interview regarding the book with Pakman published online by Letra Urbana (Interview).

Marcelo Pakman - Comments About Love

Few weeks ago I had the opportunity to be with Marcelo Pakman in Oporto, Portugal. It was the first time I had contact with the thought of Marcelo Pakman, three words stay in my mind, Social Poetic, Critical Thought, and Imagination.

The video above is published in the youtube and is just glimpse of Pakman irreverent thought. 

First Post

Scenarios & Narratives in Family Therapy is a new personal project that aims to reflect my journey through the universe of Family Therapy. Although my mother language is Portuguese I decided to publish this blog in English hopping that my ideas and narratives could travel more miles and create a more heterogeneous network. Writing in a foreign language is of course a risk. I’m shore that quite a few grammar, syntax and orthography mistakes will occur, but hopefully I will be able to communicate my main ideas.