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Family Therapy: In and Out of SYNC

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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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  1. Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

    Andrzej K. Nowak

  2. Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

    Andrzej K. Nowak

  3. Faculty of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland

    Andrzej K. Nowak

  4. Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

    Robin R. Vallacher

  5. The Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

    Ryszard Praszkier & Agnieszka Rychwalska

  6. Department of Physics and Biophysics Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Michal Zochowski

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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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