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Hypothesizing Metaframeworks in Integrative Systemic Therapy

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The Bateson Project and the Haley's own background in communication studies led him to collaborate with Milton Erickson. Haley attended one of Erickson's workshop in 1953 and then trained under his tutelage for 10 years. Haley's book, Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton Erickson (1973), was a great contribution to the field as it introduced Erickson and his unique and innovative clinical approaches to the psychotherapeutic field and highlighted Erickson's unique way of comprehending family interactions and communications that were being looked upon as dysfunctional and pathological as optimistic information that will help families eventually get unstuck. In 1967, Haley left the MRI to become the Director of Research at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center with Salvador Minuchin and Braulio Mantalvo. For the next 9 years, Haley's close friendship and collaboration with Minuchin and Mantalvo gave rise to many cutting edge ideas in the practice and training of family therapy. Haley came up with the idea of live supervision for trainees of family therapy and also developed a map for engaging families into therapy and empowering them during their first session. Haley took many of Erickson's ideas to inform his own theory of family therapy, brief strategic therapy that he founded in the 1950s. Along with his second wife, Cloe Madanes, he opened his own training center known as The Family Therapy Institute of Washington in 1976. In the same year, Haley also published one of his most influential books on his clinical approach, problem-solving family therapy. He was known as a renegade of his times who

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Bunny Duhl

1983

Reflections on Therapy and Other Essays represents the cumulative work of one of family therapy's pioneer thinkers and provocateurs. The papers in this volume are classics and belong in every family therapist's library. Many of the papers are essential to a full understanding of the history of the field as well as the evolution of some of the central debates within family therapy. Jay Haley has never been shy about his opinions, and this collection gives the reader a comprehensive view of his thoughts on the subject of therapy. The 13 essays are characteristic of Haley's unique style and are published and distributed by Haley's own agency, The Family Therapy Institute of Washington, D.C. All of the essays are beautiful examples of his clever, precise way of capturing the essences of contexts. Included are such classics as "Towards a Theory of Pathological Systems," "The Family of the Schizophrenic: A Model System," "The Contributions to Therapy of Milton H. Erickson," "Why a Mental Health Clinic Should Avoid Family Therapy," and "Fourteen Ways to Fall as a Teacher of Family Therapy." All the essays appeared in other publications but are brought together for the first time in this book. The papers can be divided into three categories reflecting Haley's various facets. The first third of the volume relates to his contribution to the project on schizophrenic communication. The second group presents Haley's views on the therapy of Milton Erickson and Don Jackson and essays on child and behavioral therapies. The final group comprises Haley's classical, satirical essays on the practice of family therapy. Haley's excellent essays on "Behavior Modification" and "In Defense of Child Therapy" highlight the differences between systemic and other therapies, as well as their areas of overlap and the limitations of the various therapeutic models. All of these essays, along with his own reflections on master therapists, make this a satisfying glimpse into issues of therapy. Papers on the wisdom of his mentorsGregory Bateson, Don Jackson, and Milton Ericksonall portray Haley's respect and appreciation of their subtle artistry. On the other hand, his satirical essays reveal a deep cynicism about clinical practice. The passion of Haley's belief in the creative genius of our masters, side by side with his disbelief in our ability to practice the art, makes an intriguing paradox. Clöe Madanes, Haley's wife as well as a respected family therapist, writes in her introduction to the book: The Haley connoisseur will find this book is a new treat, that, throwing a different light on many issues could encourage him to re-read Haley's other books. Those who read Haley here for the first time will be provoked to think about human interaction and about therapy in new and unusual ways.

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Theory and Practice of Systemic Therapy: A Re-introduction to Jackson and Weakland's “Conjoint Family Therapy” (1961)
Wendel Ray

Journal of Systemic Therapies, 2015

When Journal of Systemic Therapies Editor Jim Duvall asked for input about pivotally important-even essential-publications in the emergence of systemic brief therapies, the research and publications of the Palo Alto Group immediately came to mind. There are many noteworthy contributors to systemic thinking and practice, yet the pervasive influence of this small group of researchers stands almost unparalleled. First in Gregory Bateson's research team (1952-1961), continuing at the Mental Research Institute (MRI) and later in the MRI Brief Therapy Center (1958-present) the contributions of Gregory Bateson, Don D. Jackson, John Weakland, Jay Haley, William Fry, and later Virginia Satir, Richard Fisch, Paul Watzlawick, and colleagues revolutionized systemic understanding of human behavior and methods for promoting change efficiently and effectively. Systemic epistemology and models of therapy as currently known and practiced stand solidly on the foundation built by what has come to be known as the Palo Alto Group. Imagine being a therapist in 1961, well trained in the individually oriented approaches so prevalent at that time, when Jackson and Weakland's "Conjoint Family Therapy: Some Considerations on Theory, Technique, and Results" appeared in the journal Psychiatry. Freudian concepts and practices pervaded the behavioral sciences. Most therapeutic theory, clinical practice, and literature focused on identifying and either accepting as incurable or attempting to treat pathology located inside the individual. While the Interpersonal Theory of Harry Stack Sullivan, M.D. (1947), and colleagues such as Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, M.D. (1950), had gained wider acceptance, the focus of theory and clinical practice remained almost exclusively on individual pathology and biology, and was past causal in orientation.

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Family Therapy and Social Change
Jorge Colapinto

Family Process, 1983

From Psyche To System: The Evolving Therapy of Carl Whitaker, by John R. Neill and David P. Kniskern, New York:, Guilford Press, 1982, 409 pp. $24.50 cloth. This collection of Carl Whitaker's writings makes an important contribution to the literature of psychotherapy, and family therapy in particular. From Psyche To System offers the reader a unique opportunity to examine the evolution of a creative and controversial therapist and to understand both his approach and how it relates to his personal philosopy.

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