Origins and originality in family therapy and systemic practice / [electronic resource] Edited by Maria Borcsa & Peter Stratton.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From Origins and Originality : Family Therapy and the European Idea -- From Pragmatics to Complexity : Developments and Perspectives of Systemic Psychotherapy -- The Story of an Encounter : The Systemic Approach at the Heart of Innovative Clinical Practice -- Time : An A-theoretical Framework for Therapy and Healing -- Steps to an Ultramodern Family Therapy -- From Networks to Resonance : The Life Journey of a Family Therapist -- Families, Therapists and Nodal Thirds -- Fascinating Interfaces and Systems : Integrating Biology, Psychology and Social Sciences in Teaching, Therapy and Coaching -- Systemic Theory and Narratives of Attachment : Integration, Formulation and Development Over Time -- How to Give a Voice to Children in Family Therapy -- Blind and Mute Family Sculpting in the Training of Family Therapists -- A Multi-level, Multi-focal, Multi-voiced Journey : Not Without Family Therapy--Not With Family Therapy Alone -- Virtual Relations and Globalized Families : The Genogram 4.0 Interview -- Innovations in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice. Dedication; Preface; Contents; About the Authors; Chapter 1: From Origins and Originality: Family Therapy and the European Idea; EFTA: From a Network to an Association; The Development of EFTA; Aiming at Research; The EFTA Book Series; About This Volume; References; Part I: Paradigms; Chapter 2: From Pragmatics to Complexity: Developments and Perspectives of Systemic Psychotherapy; The First Systemic Formulations and the Influence of G. Bateson; Theoretical and Epistemological Developments of Systemic Psychotherapy. The Encounter with the Evolutionary Paradigms from Homeostatic Models to Evolutionary Models The Encounter with Constructive and Autoreferential Paradigms: The Auto-observant Systems; Encounter with the Complexity View; Towards a Complexity Ethics; References; Chapter 3: The Story of an Encounter: The Systemic Approach at the Heart of Innovative Clinical Practice; The Story of an Encounter; References; Chapter 4: Time: An A-Theoretical Framework for Therapy and Healing; Timeless Time; That Reminds Me of a Story. The Meeting of Three Ways: A Tripartite Structure. Background: Setting the Scene Recent History: Stepping Back; Time to the Fore?; Clinical Vignettes; Resources: Philosophy; Clinical Vignette; Resources: Anthropology; Ritual; Clinical Vignette: Jenny, a Ritual of Obliteration and Renewal; Rites of Passage: Temporal Phases in Therapy; Working in the In-Between; Reflections; References; Chapter 5: Steps to an Ultramodern Family Therapy; Between Objectivism and Subjectivism; Postmodernism and Family Therapy; Ultramodern Family Therapy; Final Reflections; References; Part II: Models and Concepts. Chapter 6: From Networks to Resonance: The Life Journey of a Family TherapistThe Life Journey of a Family Therapist; A Supervision Using Pictorial Resonances; Further Developments; References; Chapter 7: Families, Therapists and Nodal Thirds; Introduction; Basic Framework; Time, History and Construction of the Therapeutic System; Beginning the Session; Limit of the System; Triangular Relations; The Third in the Face-to-Face of Individual Therapy; Nodal Third and Light Third; Mourning and Ghosts; The therapist as a Professional Nodal Third; The Concept of Resonance (Elkaïm). The Therapeutic Intervention Clinical Example; Chairs as Metaphors; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: Fascinating Interfaces and Systems: Integrating Biology, Psychology and Social Sciences in Teaching, Therapy and Coaching; Therapy in the Heart of an Eco-psycho-somatic Model; Distinguishing Epistemology, Method and Technique; Epistemology; Causality; Guilt, Blame and Pathology; The Level of Methodology; The Level of Technique; Conclusion; References; Chapter 9: Systemic Theory and Narratives of Attachment: Integration, Formulation and Development over Time; Introduction.

This inaugural volume of the European Family Therapy Association book series explores family therapy and systemic practice from their origins to their future. Significant figures in European family therapy explore the field across themes, paradigms, models and concepts, and applications, and report on the implications of their findings on a range of families.