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PubMed1986

'Imagine you're clever'.

A series of four studies was conducted to investigate the influence of role enactment on problem-solving in 6-10 yr old children from a disadvantaged background. It was hypothesized that asking the child to enact someone 'clever' (and in one instance someone 'not clever'), would modify the child's performance on the Matching Familiar Figures test as against performance under standard administrative conditions. Apart from the 6 yr old sample, the findings supported the experimental hypothesis. In addition, the speech of 7 and 8 yr old impulsive and reflective children, and children previously administered reflectivity training schemes, was analysed in terms of a classification scheme of reflexivity. No differences were found between these groups on the measures of reflexivity used in speech. The implications of these findings and this approach for disadvantaged children are discussed.

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PubMed1977

Multiple family group therapy: a review of the literature.

This review focuses upon multiple family group therapy, its origin in the intersection of family and group therapies, its use in a variety of settings, its specific techniques and group development in individual and ongoing meetings, its goals and dominant themes, its parallels in family and group work. Also discussed are evaluation of outcome of this therapy modality and those dynamics thought to contribute to family change. Areas for further investigation are outlined.

Evaluation Studies as Topic↗
PubMed1988

Scripts and legends in families and family therapy.

Protective family scripts prescribe interaction that the family believes is needed to avoid potentially dangerous scenarios. Certain family legends provide moral tales that illustrate these dangers and hence reinforce these scripts. Together they contribute to family mythology. In the absence of adequate research data about specific effects of particular interventions, the therapist has to rely on his or her own beliefs about what works to change unhelpful family beliefs and interaction patterns. This essay examines the interplay between the two belief systems by exploring one of the author's own family legends and then seeing how its injunctions have been played out in his family therapy practice, thereby illustrating how myths and protective practices may be set up within the field of family therapy and its training.

Anecdotes as Topic↗
PubMed1989

Action methods in systemic therapy: dramatizing ideal futures and reformed pasts with couples.

This article presents a method for conducting a couple session that illustrates a theoretically valid role for action techniques (as opposed to verbal methods) in post-Milan systemic interviewing. Useful in an opening meeting or in consultation, it pointedly activates client resources while deemphasizing current problems. The interview format begins with contracting for ground-rules and listing clients' strengths. Each partner then creates and enacts: a scene illustrating that partner's ideal future for the relationship; a related past painful scene (usually from childhood); and a "reform" of that scene "as it should have occurred." Both partners play multiple roles in all scenes. Last and least, each partner succinctly describes his or her view of the current problem. In the enactments, rapid shifts in time dimension and multiple novel roles played by both partners efficiently promote in the couple the release from constraining beliefs and interactional patterns that is ordinarily sought by purely verbal methods in Milan-derived systemic interviews.

Acting Out↗
PubMed1997

Believing in make-believe: looking at theater as a metaphor for psychotherapy.

In this essay, I explore the theatrical dimensions of psychotherapy. I argue that many of the historical, practice-related, and conceptual connections between theater and therapy often are only alluded to in the literature, but rarely made explicit. In doing so, however, it seems apparent that, as a metaphor for psychotherapy, theater perhaps offers a more appropriate fit than those narrative and conversational metaphors that have been employed so far. Proposing that theater is, in fact, the metaphor on which psychotherapy bases itself, I briefly examine some of its implications for how therapy might be conceptualized and performed. I conclude by inviting other therapists to consider--by openly acknowledging theater as a metaphor for psychotherapy--if they might then become more engaging, creative, and imaginative in their work.

Acting Out↗
PubMed1990

The use of control vignettes.

A review of the literature revealed control, or placebo, vignettes are not used in numerous studies that employ vignette-based methodology. This is a serious flaw. The nature of this flaw and its methodological and theoretical importance are outlined in this paper as are procedures and a model for developing control vignettes.

Aggression↗
PubMed1993

Reenactment interviewing: a methodology for phenomenological research.

Reenactment is proposed as an alternative interviewing strategy for phenomenological research. Three techniques borrowed from the psychodramatic method, warming up, scene-setting and soliloquy, are described as they were used in interviews with nurses participating in a study of caregiver/patient relationships. The rationale for and implementation of the techniques are discussed. Indications of successful reenactment during an interview are described and discussed. The data suggest that skillfully directed reenactment can generate intensely vivid recall of memories experiences and emotions, engendering rich descriptions of participants' lived experience and subsequently, produces significant dialogue between interviewer and participant. Parallels are drawn between phenomenological research/philosophy and the philosophy of action upon which psychodramatic techniques are based.

Humans↗