Synopses & Reviews
Translated from the Italian by Sally Davis and Michael Wyatt
The Art of Change provides practitioners with in-depth information on the theory and practice of strategic therapy, presenting an innovative approach to conceptualizing and solving human problems. This book, the English translation of the highly regarded Italian book, L'Arte del cambiamento, provides clinical examples and practical guidelines revealing how to apply specific, goal-directed, and time-saving therapeutic techniques in practice.
Giorgio Nardone and Paul Watzlawick offer an overview of the historical development of strategic therapy approaches, and they look at the conceptual differences of the most important authors and scholars on strategic therapy. The authors show how, as opposed to traditional therapeutic approaches, the strategic therapy intervention can be a swift, well-planned process whose initiation, direction, objectives, and duration can be fairly clear from the beginning. And they demonstrate how, to be truly effective in obtaining solutions to specific clinical problems, the therapist needs to combine a knowledge of systemic techniques with inventiveness and versatility.
This book gives a detailed account of techniques and specific interventions for working with clients suffering from anxiety, phobia, and obsessive-complusive problems. Demonstrating the efficacy and the speed of this approach, Nardone presents a systematic, thorough evaluation of the results he obtained by applying these techniques to a large and varied group of subjects over two years.
Synopsis
The Art of Change provides practitioners with in-depth information on the theory and practice of strategic therapy, presenting an innovative approach to conceptualizing and solving human problems. This book, the English translation of the highly regarded Italian book, L'Arte del cambiamento, provides clinical examples and practical guidelines revealing how to apply specific, goal-directed, and time-saving therapeutic techniques in practice.
Giorgio Nardone and Paul Watzlawick offer an overview of the historical development of strategic therapy approaches, and they look at the conceptual differences of the most important authors and scholars on strategic therapy. The authors show how, as opposed to traditional therapeutic approaches, the strategic therapy intervention can be a swift, well-planned process whose initiation, direction, objectives, and duration can be fairly clear from the beginning. And they demonstrate how, to be truly effective in obtaining solutions to specific clinical problems, the therapist needs to combine a knowledge of systemic techniques with inventiveness and versatility.
This book gives a detailed account of techniques and specific interventions for working with clients suffering from anxiety, phobia, and obsessive-complusive problems. Demonstrating the efficacy and the speed of this approach, Nardone presents a systematic, thorough evaluation of the results he obtained by applying these techniques to a large and varied group of subjects over two years.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-139) and index.
About the Author
GIORGIO NARDONE is professor of brief psychotherapy at the Graduate School of Psychology, University of Siena, Italy. He is also director of the Center for StrategicTherapy in Arezzo and of the Italian Training Institute of Strategic Therapy, founded in 1989 in collaboration with the Mental Research Institute of Palo Alto, California. PAUL WATZLAWICK has been a research associate at the Mental Research Institute of Palo Alto since 1960. He is also clinical professor emeritus at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University Medical Center.
Table of Contents
1. If You Desire To See, Learn How To Act(Paul Watzlawick)
2. Heresies of the Strategic Approach
3. The Development of the Strategic Approach
4. Clinical Practice, Processes, and Procedures
5. Models for Treating Phobic and Obsessive Disorders
6. Four Case Examples
7. Outcome Research