1st Edition

The Times of Time A Perspective on Time in Systemic Therapy and Consultation

By Luigi Boscolo, Paolo Bertrando Copyright 2020
326 Pages
by Routledge

326 Pages
by Routledge

326 Pages
by Routledge

This is the most comprehensive study of the role of time in psychotherapy. It illustrates how time is experienced in different ways – individual time, family time, and social time – and how time can act as an invaluable metaphor in shaping clinical practice within a systemic approach, while maintaining connections with other approaches, such as psychoanalysis and cognitive therapies.... Read more

Series co-editor foreword

Foreword by Alan Cooklin

Prologue

Note to the text

Foreword 1993 by Helm Stierlin

Introduction

1. A journey in time: the beginning

2. Reasoning about time

3. Models of interactive time: family time

4. The observer and time

5. Times in consultation and therapy

6. Past into present

7. Future into present

8. Time and rituals

9. Three clinical cases

10. The two Messiahs

Appendixes

References

Index

Biography

Luigi Boscolo, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and systemic therapist, was part of the original Milan systemic team, led by Mara Selvini Palazzoli. He co-founded and co-directed the Centro Milanese di Terapia della Famiglia with Gianfranco Cecchin. He is also the co-author of Paradox and Counterparadox (1978), Milan Systemic Family Therapy (1987), and Systemic Therapy with Individuals (1996).

Paolo Bertrando, psychiatrist and systemic therapist, was trained in Milan by Luigi Boscolo and Gianfranco Cecchin. After 20 years as trainer at the Centro Milanese di Terapia della Famiglia, he founded with Claudia Lini the Systemic-Dialogical School in Bergamo (Italy). He is the author of, among others, Systemic Therapy with Individuals (1996, with Luigi Boscolo), The Dialogical Therapist (2007), and Emotions and the Therapist (2015).