Enchantment and Intervention in Family Therapy: Training in Ericksonian Approaches
This book can be of benefit to every therapist from beginner to advanced who is interested in a practical, hopeful and realistic approach to family therapy. The explanation on how to construct and deliver metaphors is one of the emerging approaches that demystifies and clarifies one of the most complex areas of therapy, while also suggesting useful ways for working with families. Ambiguous function assignments is another Ericksonian technique explained in a practical and easily applicable way. --Cloé Madanes, author of Strategic Family TherapySteve and Carol Lankton provide a systemic framework for understanding Ericksonian interventions through the entire process of family therapy. Paradoxical prescriptions, metaphors, blocking communications, and indirect suggestions capture the family members conscious attention, stimulate unconscious search, and lead consciousness from confusion to an understanding that comes from within. This book provides a beautiful balance between generating individuals emotions and behavioral changes and looking at the larger ecosystem. --Maurizio Andolfi, MD, Director, Family Therapy Institute, RomeSteve and Carol Lankton provide a systemic framework for understanding Ericksonian interventions through the entire process of family therapy. Paradoxical prescriptions, metaphors, blocking communications, and indirect suggestions capture the family members  conscious attention, stimulate unconscious search, and lead consciousness from confusion to an understanding that  comes from within. This book provides a beautiful balance between generating individuals  emotions and behavioral changes and looking at the larger ecosystem. --Maurizio Andolfi, MD, Director, Family Therapy Institute, Rome--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.