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Changing Perspective - Changing Solutions. Activating Images for Change in Systemic Brief Therapy - Softcover

Ilka R. Hoffmann

 
9783896703835: Changing Perspective - Changing Solutions. Activating Images for Change in Systemic Brief Therapy

Synopsis

As today more and more clients suffer from chronic problems, interrupting the vicious cycle of problem-maintaining patterns is increasingly relevant in psychotherapeutic practice. This book introduces a new method for the interruption of these vicious cycles. The presented therapeutic approach is based on Watzlawick et al.'s concept of second-order change, but re-introduces this concept from a 'non-expert' stance: Instead of interrupting the client's unsuccessful attempted solutions through therapeutic expertise, the client's internal images are activated for change. With a discussion of the relevant theoretical concepts and a detailed description of the therapeutic approach, this book is equally interesting for practitioners and researchers. For this book, Ilka R. Hoffmann was awarded the 'Sponsoring Prize of the German Systemic Society 2007'.

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About the Author

Ilka R. Hoffmann, Dr., studied philosophy and psychology at the universities of Konstanz and Darmstadt (Germany). She obtained her PhD in psychology at the Free University of Berlin. After first engaging in the counseling of chronic pain patients in Darmstadt, she moved to San Francisco in 1996. There she studied couples- and family therapy, volunteered at the San Francisco Zen Hospice, and received training in Brief Therapy (Watzlawick/Fisch) at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, where she also conducted an own research project and was elected as Research Associate of the Institute. Back in Germany, Ilka R. Hoffmann worked as a systemic family counselor for the State of Berlin. Since 2003 she is a free-lance systemic therapist, supervisor, coach and trainer in Berlin.

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