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Brief Strategic Therapy

Philosophy, Techniques, and Research

Giorgio Nardone and Paul Watzlawick

This book puts forward a complete picture of Brief Strategic Therapy while defining the theoretical and practical features that distinguish this method from other psychotherapies. The authors present a comprehensive explanation of non-ordinary Mathematical Logic, which underlies brief strategic therapy techniques, to reveal how apparently simple techniques come to solve complex, seemly untreatable problems. This book provides the reader with a detailed description of the techniques applied throughout the treatment, and also explains the strategies, tactics, and techniques employed in reframing people's perceptions, behavior and opinions. This rigorous work is one of Nardone's most important and creative contributions to the evolution of Brief Therapy. It presents the advanced techniques set up for specific pathologies through long-term experimental-empirical research carried out at the Centro di Terapia Strategica of Arezzo, Italy. Case studies are introduced for a better understanding of this approach, followed by a thorough evaluation of the results obtained through on-going experimental-empirical research.
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Jason Aronson, Inc.
Pages: 196 • Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7657-0280-7 • Paperback • February 2005 • $62.00 • (£48.00)
Subjects: Psychology / Psychotherapy / Counseling, Psychology / Education & Training, Psychology / Psychotherapy / General, Psychology / Reference, Psychology / Research & Methodology
Giorgio Nardone is the director of the Centro di Terapia Strategica (Strategic Therapy Center) and of the Post Graduate School of Brief Strategic Psychotherapy in Arezzo. He is also professor of Brief Psychotherapy at the Post Graduate School of Clinical Psychology, University of Siena, Italy.
Paul Watzlawick, Ph.D., is one of the world's leading theoreticians in communication theory and radical constructivism. He participates in the Mental Research Institute's Brief Therapy Centre and also offers workshops on the Therapy of "As-If."
Chapter 1 If You Desire to See, Learn How to Act
Chapter 2 Nonordinary Logic for Strategic Problem Solving
Chapter 3 Heresies of the Strategic Approach
Chapter 4 Clinical Practice
Chapter 5 Advanced Techniques: From General to Specific Models of Brief Therapy
Chapter 6 Unusual Case Examples: Tales of Apparently Magical Therapies
Chapter 7 Outcome Research
All in all, Brief Strategic Therapy is worth reading.
— Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic: A Journal for the Mental Health Professions


—The book presents a rigorous yet self-corrective model (comprising of strategies, communication techniques and therapeutic relationship maneuvers) designed through experimental-empirical research for specific pathologies or problems.

—Case studies are used to demonstrate the efficacy of these methods and show how therapy can became a well-planned journey (rigorous yet not rigid) whose point of departure, direction, destination, and duration can be fairly clear and predictable from the very beginning.

Brief Strategic Therapy

Philosophy, Techniques, and Research

Cover Image
Paperback
Summary
Summary
  • This book puts forward a complete picture of Brief Strategic Therapy while defining the theoretical and practical features that distinguish this method from other psychotherapies. The authors present a comprehensive explanation of non-ordinary Mathematical Logic, which underlies brief strategic therapy techniques, to reveal how apparently simple techniques come to solve complex, seemly untreatable problems. This book provides the reader with a detailed description of the techniques applied throughout the treatment, and also explains the strategies, tactics, and techniques employed in reframing people's perceptions, behavior and opinions. This rigorous work is one of Nardone's most important and creative contributions to the evolution of Brief Therapy. It presents the advanced techniques set up for specific pathologies through long-term experimental-empirical research carried out at the Centro di Terapia Strategica of Arezzo, Italy. Case studies are introduced for a better understanding of this approach, followed by a thorough evaluation of the results obtained through on-going experimental-empirical research.
Details
Details
  • Jason Aronson, Inc.
    Pages: 196 • Trim: 6 x 9
    978-0-7657-0280-7 • Paperback • February 2005 • $62.00 • (£48.00)
    Subjects: Psychology / Psychotherapy / Counseling, Psychology / Education & Training, Psychology / Psychotherapy / General, Psychology / Reference, Psychology / Research & Methodology
Author
Author
  • Giorgio Nardone is the director of the Centro di Terapia Strategica (Strategic Therapy Center) and of the Post Graduate School of Brief Strategic Psychotherapy in Arezzo. He is also professor of Brief Psychotherapy at the Post Graduate School of Clinical Psychology, University of Siena, Italy.
    Paul Watzlawick, Ph.D., is one of the world's leading theoreticians in communication theory and radical constructivism. He participates in the Mental Research Institute's Brief Therapy Centre and also offers workshops on the Therapy of "As-If."
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Chapter 1 If You Desire to See, Learn How to Act
    Chapter 2 Nonordinary Logic for Strategic Problem Solving
    Chapter 3 Heresies of the Strategic Approach
    Chapter 4 Clinical Practice
    Chapter 5 Advanced Techniques: From General to Specific Models of Brief Therapy
    Chapter 6 Unusual Case Examples: Tales of Apparently Magical Therapies
    Chapter 7 Outcome Research
Reviews
Reviews
  • All in all, Brief Strategic Therapy is worth reading.
    — Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic: A Journal for the Mental Health Professions


Features
Features
  • —The book presents a rigorous yet self-corrective model (comprising of strategies, communication techniques and therapeutic relationship maneuvers) designed through experimental-empirical research for specific pathologies or problems.

    —Case studies are used to demonstrate the efficacy of these methods and show how therapy can became a well-planned journey (rigorous yet not rigid) whose point of departure, direction, destination, and duration can be fairly clear and predictable from the very beginning.

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