This reissued version of a work first published 30 years ago, deals with ground rules for the practice of psychotherapy, setting out the basic tenets of strategic therapy, presenting various approaches to therapy from the viewpoint of paradoxical communication and offering an historical overview of the origins of family therapy.
The introduction to the book has been revised and updated. The original work was published as a result of an investigation into the whole field of therapy undertaken by the George Bateson research project in 1963.
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Jay Haley studied with Dr. Erickson for 17 years. He is a major editor of Erickson’s works and has authored many books about him. Mr. Haley has been professor at Stanford University, Howard University, the University of Maryland, and is currently professor at the California School of Professional Psychology.
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Therapy as hypnosis,
By Chris Michael "Ph.D." (CA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Strategies of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
To excessively summarize and perhaps engage in slight hyperbole, this text is about how therapy is, even in therapies that espouse total neutrality, an attempt, conscious or not, to semi-consciously convince the client to change through influence. The text concentrates more on paradoxical interventions and on communication theory than on hypnosis (there is not much hypnosis, if I remember correctly), but the idea is that therapy is a form of benevolent, partially conscious influence. Essential to the thesis is that every behavior is a communication, and that different styles of communication can get tangled up. The therapist's job is to sort them out and then come up with communications that the client cannot help but obey, even if they think they are disobeying (paradoxes). This one goes along very well with the book by Beier that I have reviewed, but is much more focused on directive client influence than Beier's book. Definitely worth a look.
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