European Family Therapy Association Series Founding Editors Maria Borcsa University of Applied Sciences Nordhausen, Germany Peter Stratton University of Leeds, Great Britain More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13797
Maria Borcsa Peter Stratton Editors Origins and Originality in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice
Editors Maria Borcsa University of Applied Sciences Nordhausen, Germany Peter Stratton University of Leeds Leeds, UK European Family Therapy Association Series ISBN 978-3-319-39060-4 ISBN 978-3-319-39061-1 (ebook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-39061-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016949371 Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
In memoriam Luigi Onnis
Preface During the work on this book Luigi Onnis, Founding Member and Honorary President of EFTA, passed away. With him, we have lost not only an important figure for our association but also a truly admired person. Having been active in the European Family Therapy Network that gave birth to EFTA, he followed enthusiastically his conviction that family therapy is due to gain an accurate place in the health policies of Europe - his commitment to these values is apparent in his chapter in this volume. His leading role in the field of family therapy was recognised all over Europe and his tireless activity, combined with his radiant personality, aroused the admiration and feelings of friendship in all who knew him. He stays in our hearts and will always be a part of our conjoint memories. We dedicate the first volume of the EFTA Book Series to Luigi Onnis with all our respect. Nordhausen, Germany Leeds, UK Maria Borcsa Peter Stratton vii
Contents 1 From Origins and Originality: Family Therapy and the European Idea... 1 Maria Borcsa and Peter Stratton Part I Paradigms 2 From Pragmatics to Complexity: Developments and Perspectives of Systemic Psychotherapy... 13 Luigi Onnis 3 The Story of an Encounter: The Systemic Approach at the Heart of Innovative Clinical Practice... 25 Jacques Pluymaekers 4 Time: An A-Theoretical Framework for Therapy and Healing... 37 Hugh Jenkins 5 Steps to an Ultramodern Family Therapy... 67 Juan Luis Linares Part II Models and Concepts 6 From Networks to Resonance: The Life Journey of a Family Therapist... 83 Mony Elkaïm 7 Families, Therapists and Nodal Thirds... 93 Edith Goldbeter-Merinfeld 8 Fascinating Interfaces and Systems: Integrating Biology, Psychology and Social Sciences in Teaching, Therapy and Coaching... 115 Theo Compernolle ix
x Contents 9 Systemic Theory and Narratives of Attachment: Integration, Formulation and Development over Time... 129 Arlene Vetere Part III Applications 10 How to Give Voice to Children in Family Therapy... 143 Maurizio Andolfi 11 Blind and Mute Family Sculpting in the Training of Family Therapists... 169 Jorma Piha and Florence Schmitt 12 A Multi-level, Multi-focal, Multi-voiced Journey: Not Without Family Therapy Not with Family Therapy Alone... 187 Kyriaki Polychroni Part IV Outlooks 13 Virtual Relations and Globalized Families: The Genogram 4.0 Interview... 215 Maria Borcsa and Julia Hille 14 Innovations in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice... 235 Peter Stratton and Maria Borcsa Index... 247
About the Authors Maurizio Andolfi, M.D. Child psychiatrist and family therapist. Professor in Clinical Psychology, University la Sapienza Rome. Director of Accademia di Psicoterapia della Famiglia, Rome. Journal editor of Terapia Familiare. President of Silvano Andolfi Foundation. Co-founder European Family Therapy Association. AAMFT supervisor. Recipient of Award for Life Achievement from American Family Therapy Academy (2016). Among publications: (1994) Please, help me with this family, Routledge; (2013) Teen Voices, Wisdom Moon Publ. Maria Borcsa, Ph.D. is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Applied Sciences Nordhausen, Germany, accredited psychological psychotherapist, family and systemic therapist, supervisor and trainer. She is founding member of the Institute of Social Medicine, Rehabilitation Sciences and Healthcare Research at UAS Nordhausen, where she established the first Master s course in Systemic Counseling in Germany. Her research interests lie in qualitative research of couple and family therapy. She is journal editor ( Systeme, 2001 2014; Psychotherapie im Dialog, since 2007) and founder of the EFTA Book Series. For many years she has served as a board member of the German Systemic Society (Systemische Gesellschaft) as well as of the European Family Therapy Association (EFTA), having been chair of the NFTO chamber 2010 2013. She served as President of EFTA 2013 2016. Theo Compernolle, M.D., Ph.D. Independent international consultant, executive (team)coach, trainer and keynote speaker. Adjunct Professor at the CEDEP European Centre for Executive Development (France). Formerly Suez Chair in Leadership and Personal Development at the Solvay Business School, Adjunct Professor at the INSEAD, Visiting Professor at the Vlerick School for Management and TIAS and Professor at the Free University of Amsterdam. Founding member of EFTA. Mony Elkaïm, M.D. is a psychiatrist. He is Honorary Professor at the Free University of Brussels and consultant at the Department of Psychiatry of the University Hospital Erasmus, Brussels. He is an approved supervisor under the xi
xii About the Authors Founders Track of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and Director of the Institute for the Study of Family and Human Systems (Brussels) as well as of ELKAIM FORMATIONS (Paris) and of the Journal Cahiers Critiques de Thérapie Familiale et de Pratiques de Réseaux (ed. De Boeck, Belgium). He is also President of the French speaking section of the Belgian Group of Systemic Psychotherapists Trainers and of the Training Institutes Chamber of EFTA. Edith Goldbeter-Merinfeld, Ph.D. Em. Professor of Systemic Psychotherapy at Free University of Brussels (ULB), Doctor in Psychology, Director of Training at the Institut d Etudes de la Famille et des Systèmes Humains in Brussels, trainer and family therapist, founding member of EFTA and of the Belgian Association of Family Therapists Trainers, and editor of the Cahiers Critiques de Thérapie Familiale et de Pratiques de Réseaux. She has directed systemic staffs in Psychosomatic and Psychiatric departments of University Hospitals in Brussels. Julia Hille, B.A., M.A. systemic social worker, is a research associate and lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Nordhausen and at the University of Applied Sciences Merseburg, Germany. She is writing her Ph.D. thesis on systemic couple therapy in the context of the international research project Relational Mind in Events of Change in Multiactor Therapeutic Dialogues at the Institute of Social Medicine, Rehabilitation Sciences and Healthcare Research at UAS Nordhausen. Hugh Jenkins, Ph.D. moving from Cardiff, he worked at the Maudsley Hospital, 1981 1988; Senior Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry 1988 2011 and Director of its Family Therapy Training Programme, 1988 1992; Chair, UK Association for Family Therapy, 1982 1985; Director, Institute of Family Therapy, 1987 1996. He received the Hungarian Family Therapy Association medal, 1996. He has worked regularly in Timişoara, Romania since 2002, establishing trainings widely recognised for their excellence. In full-time psychotherapy practice, London 1996 2012, he moved to East Anglia where he continues part-time. He has authored multiple articles, chapters, and was English Editor of The Dictionary of Family Therapy, 1995. He is a watercolour artist, exhibiting in East Anglia, with a solo exhibition in Romania, 2015. Juan Luis Linares is psychiatrist and psychologist, Professor of Psychiatry at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Director of the Master in Family Therapy at the Universitat Ramón Llull. He is also Director of the Psychotherapy Unit and the Family Therapy School at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona. He has been founding member and President of the Societat Catalana de Teràpia Familiar (SCTF), the Federación Española de Asociaciones de Terapia Familiar (FEATF) and the European Family Therapy Association (EFTA), and he is Honorary President of the Red Europea y Latinoamericana de Escuelas Sistémicas (RELATES).
About the Authors xiii Luigi Onnis, Ph.D. (1944 2015) was Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology at the University of Rome La Sapienza and Director of Training for I.E.F.Co.S. (Istituto Europeo di Formazione e Consulenza Sistemica), Rome, Italy. He served as President of I.E.F.CO.S.T.RE, Cagliari. He was family therapy supervisor at the Family Therapy University School, Barcelona (Spain), approved supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and honorary member of Association des Therapeutes Systemiques Françaises. Editor of the Journal Rivista Psicobiettivo. Member of the editorial board: Journal of Systemic Therapies, Cahiers Critiques de Therapie Familiale, Reviste de Psicoterapia. He was member of the European Family Therapy Network and founding member and Honorary President of EFTA. Jorma Piha, M.D., Ph.D. is Emeritus Professor of Child Psychiatry at the University of Turku, Finland. He also served as the Head of the Child Psychiatry Clinic at Turku University Hospital. Additionally he is an Adjunct Professor of Family Psychotherapy. His research interests deal with child psychiatric epidemiology and follow-up and with risk factors in early parent-infant interaction. He is an accredited family psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer, and currently he is the Chair of the Finnish National Consortium of Universities for Psychotherapist Training. Jacques Pluymaekers is a psychologist and family therapist. In 1970 he initiated a pilot project in one of the most underprivileged districts of Brussels which would develop the systemic approach and the family therapy in situations of crisis. This project also became the starting point of practices and many researches on the work of inter-institutional networks. He has developed, as of the 1980s, cycles of training in systemic approach and family therapy at the Association Réseau Famille in Montpellier (France), and at the Institut Provincial de Formation Sociale in Namur (Belgium). He was one of the founders of the Network Alternative to Psychiatry set up in 1975 in Brussels. He is Former Scientific Advisor at the School of Criminology of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He is Director and trainer at the Institute for Family and Human System Studies in Brussels and at the Association Réseau et Famille in Montpellier (France). Founding member of the European Family Therapy Association (EFTA), he was chairing CIM 2001 2013 and is today Honorary President of EFTA. Kyriaki Polychroni, M.A., C.G.P., E.A.P. is a psychologist, systemic family and group psychotherapist and trainer at the Athenian Institute of Anthropos in Greece and a long-standing member of its Scientific Council. She is a certified EFT couple therapist, supervisor and trainer (ICEEFT), training and supervising professionals in couple and family therapy throughout Europe. Kyriaki is the Immediate Past President of the European Family Therapy Association (EFTA) and currently the Vice-Chair of its Chamber of Training Institutes (EFTA- TIC). She is a member of the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA). Former Vice-President of the national branch of the European Association of Psychotherapists (E.A.P.). Founding
xiv About the Authors member of the Hellenic Association of Systemic Therapy. Kyriaki Polychroni is joint editor of the journal Human Systems. Florence Schmitt, Ph.D. is psychotherapist at the Department of Child Psychiatry of Turku University Hospital in Finland. She is an advanced level family therapist and trainer in family therapy, an individual psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapist for adults, and an early interaction psychotherapist. Her research and clinical work focused on supporting parenthood and parenting of both, mentally and somatically severely ill parents. Psychotherapy with dying parents and their children has been for the last 10 years a clinical priority. Peter Stratton, B.Sc., Ph.D. Dip Psychotherapy. Fellow of the BPS and Emeritus Professor of Family Therapy at Leeds University, UK, he is a systemic family therapist and developmental psychologist with broad research interests and involvement in statutory processes that affect families. His research includes development of an outcome measure for families in therapy (the SCORE project); the effects of basing training on concepts of active learning and the dialogical construction of self; the relationships of humour and creativity during psychotherapy; and attributional analyses of family causal beliefs and blaming. He is founding editor of the journal Human Systems ; Chair of European Family Therapy Association Research Committee and recently Academic and Research Development Officer for the Association for Family Therapy and Chair of the UKCP Research Faculty. Founding Director of Leeds Family Therapy and Research Centre and Managing Director of The Psychology Business Ltd. Arlene Vetere, Ph.D., F.B.Ps.S., F.Ac.S.S. is Professor of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice at VID Specialized University, Oslo, Norway; Visiting Professor of Clinical Psychology at Universita degli Studi, Bergamo, Italy; and Affiliate Professor of Family Studies at Malta University. She lives in the UK where she is registered as a clinical psychologist, systemic psychotherapist and systemic supervisor. She joined the EFTA process in 1996 as chair of UK Association of Family Therapy, being a member of the working party that developed the three chamber structure of the new EFTA. Further she chaired the NFTO Board 2001 2004 and was President of EFTA for two terms, 2004 2010.