The Logic of Therapeutic Change: Fitting Strategies to Pathologies

149 Pages·2015·2.14 MB·English

by  Giorgio Nardone, Elisa Balbi

THE LOGIC OF THERAPEUTIC CHANGE

THE LOGIC OF
THERAPEUTIC CHANGE
Fitting Strategies to Pathologies
Giorgio Nardone
with Elisa Balbi
Originally published in Italian in 2008 as Solcare il Mare All’insaputa del Cielo
First published in English in 2015 by
Karnac Books Ltd
118 Finchley Road
London NW3 5HT
Ponte alle Grazie, an imprint of Adriano Salani Editore
Copyright © 2008 Adriano Salani Editore S.p.A.
The rights of Giorgio Nardone and Elisa Balbi to be identified as the authors of
this work have been asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copyright
Design and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored
in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic,
mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written
permission of the publisher.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A C.I.P. for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN-13: 978-1-78220-226-4
Typeset by V Publishing Solutions Pvt Ltd., Chennai, India
Printed in Great Britain
www.karnacbooks.com
We need a new way of thinking
to solve the problems
caused by the old way of thinking.
—Einstein, 1983

CONTENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHORS ix
FOREWORD xi
CHAPTER ONE
Non-ordinary logic 1
CHAPTER TWO
Self-deceptions and interactions 11
CHAPTER THREE
Change 19
CHAPTER FOUR
Change and performative language 47
CHAPTER FIVE
Learning 53
vii
viii CONTENTS
CHAPTER SIX
The logics of ambivalence 61
CHAPTER SEVEN
Operational concepts, therapeutic stratagems 73
CHAPTER EIGHT
Therapeutic stratagems: clinical examples 79
REFERENCES 119
INDEX 127
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Giorgio Nardone is the psychology-psychotherapist director and
founder, together with Paul Watzlawick, of the Strategic Therapy
Centre and of the Post Graduate School of Brief Strategic Therapy in
Arezzo, Italy. He has published numerous articles and thirty-one books
translated in many languages, several of them really “long selling”
classics. He is renowned as one of the most creative therapists as well
as a systematic researcher in the field of psychotherapy and problem
solving: his systematic and effective model of brief strategic therapy
is followed by many psychotherapists all around the world. He is an
internationally acclaimed presenter both for specialised seminars and
workshops and large public conferences.
Elisa Balbi is psychology-psychotherapist, teacher, and supervisor at
the Post Graduate School of Brief Strategic Therapy in Arezzo, Italy.
ix