Antoni Martínez Riu
This collection of essays introduces the reader to brief therapy, a therapeutic work model developed in the late sixties of last century by a group of researchers at the Mental Research Institute in California, known internationally as the group of Palo Alto; a model centered on problem solving in a short time, epistemologically endorsed by General Systems theory, cybernetics and constructivism._x000D_
The title of the work-Brief Therapy: philosophy and art, seems more than appropriate to define model components: philosophy, because it is not only a therapeutic tool, but also a model of knowledge, and art, because the techniques and strategies developed structure the work of the therapist as a dance of restrictions and advances, subtleties and treacheries, which condense in the therapy session for the purpose of the change, the art of human problem solving complex mediating see...read more
