Mind in therapy: Constructing systemic family therapies

Bradford P Keeney; Jeffrey M Ross

doi:10.25159/300

Mind in therapy: Constructing systemic family therapies

Authors

Bradford P Keeney

University of St Thomas

Jeffrey M Ross

Cornell University Medical College

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25159/300

Keywords:

Family therapy, Psychology, Therapy, Psychotherapy

Synopsis

ISBN: 0 86981 783 3

Contents

Acknowledgments

About This Book

Part I

Theoretical foundations

1. Laws of therapeutic form

Constructivism

Semantic and political frames of reference

Mapping a therapeutic reality: A case study of Olga Silverstein

2. Multiple communication in systemic therapy

Distinction and recursive complementarity

A cybernetic model of multiple communication

The cybernetic structure of interventions

Mapping systemic interventions: A case study of Olga Silverstein

Part II

Strategies for organizing therapy

3. Problem-solution interaction

The mental research institute strategy

A case study of John Weakland

4. Triadic social relations

Jay Haley's strategy

The use of therapeutic paradox: A case study supervised by Jay Haley

Comparison of Jay Haley's and Salvador Minuchin's Strategies

A structural family therapy case study of H. Charles Fishman

5. Contextual meaning

The Milan strategy

A case study of Luigi Boscolo and Gianfranco Cecchin

Afterword

References

Index

Author Biographies

Bradford P Keeney, University of St Thomas

Bradford P. Keeney is associated with the Department of Professional Psychology at the University of St Thomas, St Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of Aesthetics of Change (1983), Constructing Therapeutic Realities (1987), Improvisational Therapy (1990), among others. His work has been translated into German, Spanish, and Italian.

Jeffrey M Ross, Cornell University Medical College

Jeffrey M. Ross has a private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Former clinical faculty member, Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College.