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Systemic Therapy as Transformative Practice

Editor : Imelda McCarthy, Editor : Gail Simon

Table of Contents

Foreword
Monica McGoldrick

Preface

Part I - Times of Change and Solidarity
1. Systemic Psychotherapy on the Move: Following Ariadne's thread in changing clinical contexts
Jane Dutton

2. The Inner and the Outer Sides of the Wind: Collaborative practice in the Solidarity Social Medical Centre of Thessaloniki, Greece
Fany (Fotini) Triantafillou, Dimitra Pouliopoulou, Elektra Bethymouti & Efrossini Moureli

3. A 'Fifth Wave' Systemic Practice Punctuating Liberation: Reflective Practice and Collective Social Action
Taiwo Afuape

4. Fourfold Vision and Cybernetic Unity: Therapist as Scientist, Theorist, Humanist and Artist
Hugh Palmer

5. The Event. On Experimenting With Complex Systems
Christopher J. Kinman

6. Looking for a Home: An Exploration of Jacques Derrida’s Notion of Hospitality in Family Therapy Practice With Refugees
Lucia De Haene & Peter Rober

7. A Systemic-Dialogical Perspective for Dealing With Cultural Differences in Psychotherapy
Andrea Davolo & Laura Fruggeri

8. Living Supervision in Practice: Structuring Accountability With Men Therapists Working Alongside Women and Gender-Variant Persons With Precarious Lives
Vikki Reynolds & Andrew Larcombe

9. Family Therapy in an Emerging Professional Life: One Story Among Stories
Therese Hegarty

10. Reflexive Processes in Higher Education: Systemic Dilemmas in Teaching Research Methodology by Means of ‘Polyphonic Dialogue'
Eleftheria Tseliou, Georgios Abakoumkin, Vicky Kokkini, Katerina Nanouri & Fani Valai

11. Systemic Practice as Systemic Inquiry as Transformative Research
Gail Simon

12. Framing the Symmetry
Nora Bateson

Part II - Transformative Conversations
13. Community Work and Psychotherapy as Two Sides of the Same Cooperative Practice
Umberta Telfener

14. The Aesthetics of Interruption: Points of Entry in Systemic Therapy
Ged Smith

15. Restoring Communities for Children and Separated Parents Caught in Demonising Fights
Justine Van Lawick

16. Creating Islands of Safety for Victims of Violence: Critical Systems Approach
Catherine Richardson/Kinewesquao

17. Systemic Practice in a Complex System: Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church
Marie Keenan

18. Hope and Risk: Systemic Practices for Supervision and Assessment in Child Protection
Ernst Salamon & Imelda McCarthy

19. ‘Double Jeopardy’ and ‘Professional Jeopardy’: Stories of Shared Identity
Gill Goodwillie

20. Paths to Transformative Conversations
Francesca Balestra & Laura Fruggeri

21. Systemic Conversations with Military Families: Research as Intervention
Ann-Margreth E. Olsson

22. Heresies from Practice: A Case of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Padraic Gibson & Don Boardman

23. Family Semantic Polarities as a Guide for the Therapeutic Process
Valeria Ugazio

24. Beyond Biology and the Linguistic Turn: Event, Singularity, Sense and the Work of Imagination
Marcelo Pakman

25. Systemic Psychosexual Therapy: A Guided Tour
Desa Markovic

26. When You Say, “It’s Not Sickness, It’s Love”, There Will Be a Powerful Change of Context
Mia Andersson

Notes on Contributors