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The traditional psychotherapeutic approaches (i.e., psychoanalytic or neo-behavioral) focus on individuals who develop specific symptoms. We present here a different approach, based on the Family System Theory, which considers the process of synchronization and the way synchronizing elements generate dysfunctional or functional units.
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Developed in the 1950s and 1960s, mostly in Palo Alto, by Gregory Bateson Jay Haley, Donald D. Jackson, Paul Watzlawick; later, in the 1970, also by Salvador Minuchin, Virginia Satir, and the Milan School (Mara Selvini Palazzoli).
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For example represented by Carl Whitaker, Virginia Satir, Gregory Bateson, Jay Haley, Milton H. Erickson, Salvador Minuchin, Virginia Satir and Mara Selvini Palazzoli.
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The first and second cases are taken from the author’s clinical practice.
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Based on: Wilk (1985).
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Nowak, A.K., Vallacher, R.R., Praszkier, R., Rychwalska, A., Zochowski, M. (2020). Family Therapy: In and Out of SYNC. In: In Sync. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38987-1_9
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