The Logic of Therapeutic Change: Fitting Strategies to Pathologies

by Giorgio Nardone

In 1993 Giorgio Nardone and Paul Watzlawick published The Art of Strategic Therapy and Hypnotherapy Without Trance, a revolutionary work that introduced a series of effective clinical strategies to create therapeutic change, even in seemingly impossible cases. In his new book, Giorgio Nardone performs another quantum leap, leading his readers to a more operative knowledge of the precise logic of therapeutic change. Most intimidating mental disorders are based on perceptions of reality that when using an ordinary 'common-sense' logic as our reading lens, look as if they are irrational, bizarre, illogical and therefore hard to understand and manage. Yet if we can follow the patient's own logic, which is definitely a non-ordinary logic, we can come to recognise the 'rules of the game', a game that we can actually 'play and win'. In his exciting new approach, Professor Nardone shows that by understanding the non-ordinary logic of a problem (which is often based on the logic of belief, paradox and contradiction), we can come to choose the best strategies to bring about effective change.

150 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 12, 2015

About the author

Giorgio Nardone (Arezzo, 23 settembre 1958) è uno psicologo e psicoterapeuta italiano.
È il fondatore insieme a Paul Watzlawick del Centro di Terapia Strategica di Arezzo (ove svolge la sua attività di Psicoterapeuta e coach) ed è considerato la figura di maggior spicco della tradizione della scuola di Palo Alto.
È autore di numerosi saggi tradotti in varie lingue e di libri di carattere divulgativo destinati al grande pubblico.

Reviews

[Carlos Xavier · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Alex Giurgea · Rating 5 out of 5]

O carte de o claritate extraordinara. Sunt explicate principiile de alegere a strategiilor potrivite in functie de specificitatile fiecarui caz. O recomand sa fie citita dupa celelate carti, deoarece necesita mai intai familiarizarea cu metodele pentru a intelege mai bine mecanismele din spatele succesului acestora.